By SAMMY JULIAN
Manila News Bureau Chief
MANILA – The Taipei District Prosecutors Office has filed charges against a Taiwanese lawyer for falsely accusing a Filipino household service worker (HSW) of stealing a diamond ring, earrings, a necklace and cash amounting to NT$30,000 (roughly P45,000) from her.
Results of the investigation conducted by Taipei prosecutors showed that the complaint was lodged against the Filipino HSW to prevent her from revealing what she knows about the extramarital affairs of the lawyer, identified only by her surname Chuang by the Taiwan media, with her driver who also serves as her bodyguard from November to December of 2010.
According to the government lawyers, Chuang first forced the Filipino into signing a waiver agreeing not to ask for a renewal of her contract with them. The lawyer even bought her employee’s plane ticket back to Manila in June 2011.
However, the Filipino decided not to honor the arrangement with her employer and stayed in Taiwan. This supposedly prompted Chuang to try and get her employee thrown out of Taiwan by accusing her of stealing valuables from her.
With these findings, Taipei prosecutors moved for the dropping of the charges against the Filipino HSW and to file a complaint instead against her employer.
Chuang and her husband subsequently divorced in September 2011./PN
