Taiwan's High Court has vacated the decision of a lower court to grant former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je bail on charges of corruption. The court agreed with prosecutors that the previous ruling had not sufficiently accounted for the possibility that Ko and the other accused could try to escape. A new bail hearing will take place on Sunday.
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00:00Former presidential candidate Ke Wen-je could soon find himself back in custody just days
00:06after he was granted bail in a corruption case that has embroiled the former founder
00:10of the Taiwan People's Party.
00:13Ke was bailed on Friday after he was charged with profiteering and taking bribes.
00:17He had spent almost four months in detention while the case against him and several others
00:21was investigated.
00:23But prosecutors appealed the bail decision, saying the judge hadn't sufficiently accounted
00:27for the possibility that Ke and the other accused could try to escape.
00:32The high court agreed with their arguments and revoked the original ruling.
00:36A new bail hearing is now due to take place on Sunday.