TAIPEI: Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou apologised Friday after one of his confidants was implicated in a corruption scandal, just months after another friend resigned from the cabinet amid bribery accusations.
Lai Su-ju, a member of the Taipei City Council, was interrogated and released on bail early Friday on suspicion of soliciting and accepting money from a company in a massive construction project in the capital, prosecutors said.
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