Taiwan ex-leader denies taking bribes

I thought this was an interesting article considering that we have continually discussed the Chinese leaders are corrupt because they have to be in order to maintain respect and also in order to get enough money to support their family, etc.

"TAIPEI (AFP) – Taiwan's former president Wednesday denied taking bribes in a land deal during a hearing into a high-profile corruption case implicating him and his family.
Chen Shui-bian, who has been in custody since December on graft and other charges, all of which he has denied, represented himself in a pre-trial hearing that touched on the construction of an industrial park in northern Taiwan.
Prosecutors allege that a developer secured billions of Taiwan dollars worth of illegal benefits from selling land to the government for the park after giving 400 million Taiwan dollars (11.42 million US) to Chen and his wife Wu Shu-chen"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090304/wl_asia_afp/taiwanpoliticscorruptionchen;_ylt=Aj7G8sy3jFnA4llonpOmfqYBxg8F