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Ex-Taiwan President Sentenced To Jail For Leaking Information
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12:08 PMFormer Taiwan President Sentenced For Leaking Information
A court in Taiwan on Tuesday sentenced former president Ma Ying-jeou to four months jail over a leak of information related to national security, legal documents showed, but he vowed to appeal, and could avoid jail altogether by paying a fine.
— Benjamin Wood (@BenjaminWoodPHX) May 15, 2018
The charges against Ma relate to testimony allegedly disclosed to him illegally in 2013 when he was president and facing challenges from opponents in the legislature. Ma can appeal the sentence, which is also commutable to a fine.
Ma had originally been found not guilty of the charges last August, but prosecutors appealed the verdict.
The charges against Ma arose from a 2013 lawsuit brought by Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker Ker Chien-ming, who accused the ex-president of leaking information from a wiretapped conversation.
Ma met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2015 in what was seen as a watershed moment for relations between the Communist Party and the Nationalists who had fled to Taiwan amid civil war in 1949.
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