The Legislative Yuan will decide after the final court ruling whether a former lawmaker, who was convicted of fraud in a case involving dual citizenship status, should return her aggregate salary, the legislative speaker said Friday. Wang Jin-pyng stressed that the Legislative Yuan will handle the case based on the law and will make a decision unclouded by personal sympathy. The Taipei District Court on Thursday sentenced former Legislator Lee Ching-an, also known as Diane Lee, to two years in prison for fraud. Lee was convicted on charges related to holding U.S. citizenship while serving as a Taipei city councilor from 1994 to 1998 and a Kuomintang legislator from 1999 to 2008. Taiwan's Nationality Act stipulates that holders of dual citizenship must surrender their foreign citizenship before assuming public office. Lee had been in public office for some 14 years before it was discovered in March 2008 that she had never relinquished her U.S. citizenship. The district court also ruled that Lee's sentence cannot be suspended, but it can be appealed. Wang pointed out that Thursday's ruling was made in a criminal case, but possible civil action had not yet been resolved. The Legislative Yuan will take action based on the law as soon as the final court ruling is made, he added. According to the legislature's Research Bureau, the Taipei district prosecutors office indicted Lee on charges of forgery and fraud. On the charge of fraud, the court is empowered to declare in the final ruling that Lee must refund all of her pay for the entire period of her public service, the bureau said. If the court does not make such a ruling, it will be up to the legislature, which paid Lee's salary, to decide whether or not to file a civil suit against Lee to recoup the funds, it added. 