Taiwanese former president Chen Shui-bian, currently serving 17.5 years in jail for corruption, received an additional year's sentence for accepting bribes and laundering money during his term.
The court decided Thursday to combine and reduce his latest sentences, handed down in August 2011 for convictions relating to bribery, and originally totalling two extra years, a court spokeswoman told dpa.
His sentences now total 21 years, but have been reduced by the court to 18.5 years to serve, she said.
Chen was arrested six months after finishing his 2000-to-2008 presidency and has been on trial since then on multiple counts of graft and embezzlement as prosecutors continued to dig deeper into the workings of his administration.
His first sentences were handed down in 2010, and his time in prison is being counted from the start of his pre-trial detention in 2008.
He has been acquitted of one embezzlement charge but that verdict is being appealed by the prosecutors.
Chen was moved from prison to hospital in September after he complained of ailments including depression, caused by cramped prison conditions and lack of exercise. He was transferred to a psychiatric ward in October.
Taiwan's former president Chen gets more jail time for bribes
Taiwanese former president Chen Shui-bian, currently serving 17.5 years in jail for corruption, received an additional year's sentence for accepting bribes and laundering money during his term.
The court decided Thursday to combine and reduce his latest sentences, handed down in August 2011 for convictions relating to bribery, and originally totalling two extra years, a court spokeswoman told dpa.
His sentences now total 21 years, but have been reduced by the court to 18.5 years to serve, she said.
Chen was arrested six months after finishing his 2000-to-2008 presidency and has been on trial since then on multiple counts of graft and embezzlement as prosecutors continued to dig deeper into the workings of his administration.
His first sentences were handed down in 2010, and his time in prison is being counted from the start of his pre-trial detention in 2008.
He has been acquitted of one embezzlement charge but that verdict is being appealed by the prosecutors.
Chen was moved from prison to hospital in September after he complained of ailments including depression, caused by cramped prison conditions and lack of exercise. He was transferred to a psychiatric ward in October.
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