In mid-August, the media and KMT legislator Hung Shiu-chu exposed a number of secret accounts set up by former president Chen Shui-bian in Singapore and Switzerland under the names of his brother-in-law Wu Ching-mao and his daughter-in-law Huang Jui-ching. More than US $ 30 million had been transferred from Taiwan into these accounts. Due to suspicions of money laundering, Swiss federal prosecutors wrote to the Taiwanese authorities in July 2008 requesting judicial assistance.
8 月中，媒體與國民黨立委洪秀柱相繼揭露，前總統陳水扁以妻舅吳景茂、媳婦黃睿靚之名，在新加坡、瑞士開設多個秘密帳戶，將三千多萬美金（約台幣 9 億元）匯往國外，由於瑞士聯邦檢察署認為有洗錢嫌疑，今年 7 月發函，請求台灣政府提供司法協助。