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Catching the Corrupt Chen Shui-bian reopens a political murder case

1. The gold silk blouse and earrings are signs that Li Mei-kuei is finally coming out of mourning. Seven years ago her husband’s bloated corpse washed ashore in the northern Taiwanese fishing port of Suao. Capt. Yin Ching-feng had been the chief naval officer overseeing Taiwan’s purchases of foreign weapons, including six French Lafayette frigates that cost $ 2.7 billion. At first the Navy insisted he had drowned. But an outside autopsy showed he was bludgeoned to death. Li, his 49 year-old widow, insists he was murdered for uncovering a corruption ring within the military. But the Kuomintang regime, which was closely tied to the military, never cracked the case. Earlier this month Chen Shui-bian, the first opposition president in Taiwan’s history, vowed to reopen the investigation. “I had given up all hope,” says Li, “but now a ray of light has been shown in.”
2. Chen wants to illuminate a half-century of darkness. Despite emerging as one of Asia’s few true democracies, Taiwan has been unable to rid itself of a legacy of corruption. Vote buying, insider trading, bribes and kickbacks in the private sector and the government became part of the fabric of society under the Kuomintang, which ruled Taiwan for 50 years. Fed up with “black-money politics”, the Taiwanese voted in March for Chen, who promised to clean up society. Chen has launched a major campaign against political corruption, the first in Taiwan, with indictments of two legislators, investigations of several public officials and the high profile Yin case. Symbolically, he is taking on the Kuomintang’s entire legacy. “Even if this case shakes the nation to its very foundations,” Chen said in mid-August, “it must still be solved, no matter how high it may go.”
3. The blame could reach right to the top. Former president Lee Teng-hui, the first native-born president, fought for greater democracy. But as he consolidated his power against mainland-born hardliners, he cultivated close ties with local factions and shady businessmen. During his tenure the local media uncovered hundreds of corruption cases. Finance committees in the legislature became dominated by men with criminal records.
Some crusaders want to include the entire party, of which Lee was chairman, in a witch-hunt. Chen Ding-nan, Chen’s new Justice minister, seems ready to purge everyone. “The Kuomintang government,” he says, “was just a group of [criminal] accomplices that included government officials, large enterprises and gangsters.”
4. Taiwan’s boisterous press is re-examining clues in Captain Yin’s murder. Li is convinced that her husband’s death was related to the purchase of the French frigates. She says that shortly before his murder, Yin returned from a trip to France and told her he had learned of some defects with the ships’ design. One of his co-workers in the military’s procurement department was later convicted for taking bribes; other suspects fled overseas. Military officers warn direly of “chaos” if Chen proceeds with the case. “If all those involved were prosecuted, Taiwan’s national-security forces would to the naval procurement process told NEWS-WEEK.
5. Corrupt lawmakers can no longer hide behind legislative immunity. Taking advantage of a legal loophole, prosecutor searched an office used by Liao Hwu-peng, a Kuomintang legislator. Liao is suspected of obtaining false stocks. Last week prosecutors searched another office used by Gary Wang, a Kuomintang legislator suspected of involvement in a $ 32 million land-fraud deal. Prosecutors indicted the mayor of southern Tainan, a member of alleged corruption involving the construction of a canal. All three insist they are innocent.
6. Chen may feel a sense of personal mission to solve the case of Captain Yin. As a leader of the opposition under the Kuomintang, he was repeatedly exposed to the violence inflicted on its opponents. He has pledged to reopen the case of the mother and daughters of Lin Yi-hsiung, a fellow opposition leader, who were murdered in their sleep in 1980. Chen’s own wife was run down and paralysed in 1985 – another unsolved case. For Chen, solving the murder of Yin has symbolic importance. “Perhaps it was the spirit of Captain Yin Ching-feng in heaven that helped me get into the presidential office,” he says. Widow Li may see justice yet.
NEWS WEEK SEPTEMBER 4, 2000

Vocabulary:

to catch:	pegar, apanhar		political murder case:	caso de assassinato político
gold silk blouse:	blusa de seda dourada		earrings:	brincos
to come out of mourning:	deixar o luto		bloated corpse:	cadáver inchado
to wash ashore:	aparecer na praia		northern:	ao norte
fishing port:	porto pesqueiro		purchases:	compras, aquisições
to oversee:	inspecionar		foreign weapons:	armas estrangeiras
at first:	a princípio		navy:	marinha
to drown:	afogar-se		to bludgeon:	espancar
widow:	viúva		to uncover:	revelar, descobrir
corruption ring:	rede de corrupção		closely tied of:	bem ligado a
to crack the case:	descobrir, desvendar o caso		to vow:	prometer
to give up:	desistir		a ray of light:	um raio de luz
a half century of darkness:	meio século de escuridão		despite:	apesar de
unable:	incapaz		to rid of:	livrar-se de
vote-buying:	compra de votos		insider trading:	negócios ilícitos
bribes:	subornos		kickback:	propina
fabric:	estrutura, sistema		under:	sob o regime de
to rule:	governar, administrar		fed up:	cansado de
back-money politics:	política de dinheiro sujo		to voter for:	votar a favor de
to clean up society:	limpar a sociedade		to launch:	lançar
a major campaign:	uma grande campanha		indictments:	acusações
officials:	autoridades		high-profile:	notável, de destaque
to take on:	assumir		entire legacy:	todo o legado
to shake:	balançar, mexer		no matter how high:	não importa até onde
blame:	culpa		former:	ex
to fight for:	lutar por		hardliners:	radicais
close ties:	laços íntimos		shady businessmen:	homens de negócios suspeitos
tenure:	mandato		local media:	mídia local
criminal records:	fichas criminais		entire party:	o partido todo
chairman:	presidente		a witch hunt:	caça às bruxas
to purge:	expulsar		accomplices:	cúmplices
enterprises:	empresas		boisterous press:	imprensa sensacionalista
clues:	pistas		shortly before:	pouco antes
to learn of:	ficar sabendo de		frigates:	fragatas
co-workers:	colaboradores		to be convicted for:	ser condenado por
to flee (fled – fled) overseas:	fugir para o exterior		to warn:	alertar
direly:	terrivelmente, horrivelmente		to proceed:	prosseguir, continuar
to be prosecuted:	ser levado a julgamento		to throw – threw – throw:	jogar, lançar
source:	fonte		close to:	próximo a
lawmakers:	legisladores		no longer:	não mais
to hide – hid – hidden:	esconder, ocultar		to take advantage of:	aproveitar
a legal loophole of:	uma brecha legal		prosecutors:	promotores
to search:	procurar		false stocks:	ações falsas
deal:	negócio		to indict:	indicar, processar
mayor:	prefeito		southern:	ao sul
alleged:	suposto		repeatedly:	repetidamente
to unflict:	impor		to pledge:	implorar
to run down:	atropelar