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Updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 0:14 am TWN, The China Post news staff



	Yeh Ying, right, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department under the Fujian Provincial Public Security Office, used a broken-palm picture to explain their investigation conclusion that Taiwanese businessman Hu Chi-yang allegedly chopped off his own hand in an attempt to defraud his insurer, at a press conference held yesterday in Fuzhou City. (CNA) More Photos (2)

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China accuses man of cutting off own hand in insurance scam

Taiwan investigators yesterday interviewed a Taiwan businessman accused by mainland police of chopping off his own hand in an attempt to defraud his insurer, saying they would not prosecute the man on the strength of evidence furnished by mainland authorities alone.

Hu Chi-yang (胡其揚), who claims his left hand was severed by muggers when he was visiting Putian District in the mainland coastal province of Fujian three weeks ago, can claim more than NT$50 million in compensation from insurers from which he had bought travel insurance prior to his departure from Taiwan, according to mainland investigators.

Hu, who was discharged from a mainland hospital three days ago, denies the allegations, as so does his family, but the mainland authorities yesterday laid out their arguments against Hu in a high-profile press conference in Fujian.

Mainland Claims

According to Yei Ying (葉穎), chief of the Criminal Investigation Department under the Fujian Provincial Public Security Office, mainland investigators have arrived at their conclusions based on more than 500 interviews and evidence assembled by the hospital in which Hu was treated after the alleged robbery.

Hu rejected surgery to stitch back the severed part of the hand when he was brought to the hospital, where traces of an anesthetic drug were found in his blood, and bruises caused by impact were also found on the back of the severed hand, said mainland investigators.

Their second argument against Hu was that his DNA was found on a bone cleaver picked up by investigators near where he was injured, and Hu was identified by the owner of the knife shop as the purchaser of the cleaver.

Security camera footage taken in the neighborhood also shows that Hu passed by the shop.

Another fact which mainland investigators said aroused their suspicion was that Hu could go on home unaided after his injury and did not even call for help, and none of the people within a radius of 5 to 15 meters of the alleged crime scene heard or saw anything unusual. The person who called the police was Hu's mainland wife.

Hospital personnel also said if Hu had indeed been attacked by knife-wielding robbers, the 16 parallel cuts into his hand would be difficult to explain, unless he had held himself motionless and did not resist.

Hu's behavior, according to Yei, constitutes a disturbance of public order and is punishable by detention for up to 10 days.

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Comments

November 29, 2011 benjaminoroma@

It baffles me how one could inflict such a massive wound on oneself just for uncertain amount of money. China authority should better be sure of what they are saying because I am not buying any of it....