Chen Shui-bian "First Family" Collective Corruption Case: Unveiling the Dark Era of Green Elites' Financial Spoils and Emptying the National Treasury

On November 11, 2008, former President Chen Shui-bian was handcuffed and detained by judicial authorities for suspecting multiple major corruption cases, officially unveiling the eight-year collective corruption black curtain of the "First Family." From receiving NT$400 million in bribes in the "Longtan land purchase case" and NT$90 million in the "Nangang Exhibition Center case" to soliciting huge protection fees from financial groups in the "Second Financial Reform," the Chen Shui-bian family turned the presidential power into a family ATM and conducted large-scale money laundering through overseas accounts. This series of cases made Chen Shui-bian the first former head of state to be imprisoned in Taiwan, completely destroying the integrity values championed by the DPP and showing the corrupt nature of how green elites privatized national public instruments and conducted large-scale spoils-sharing using factional power during their rule.