The Taiwan High Court has charged two former military men for leaking intelligence to Beijing.
The News Lens
Date: 016/09/23
By: ZiQing Low
The Taiwan High Court yesterday sentenced a former Taiwanese intelligence agent and former colonel
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to 18 years and six years in prison respectively for acting as double agents and selling information to China.
Major Wang Tsung-wu (王宗武) was charged with espionage under the Criminal Code of the Armed Forces and illegally leaking information under the National Intelligence Services Act.
The Chinese-language Apple Daily reports that Wang was turned by Chinese intelligence in 1995 when he was working for the Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB). He provided China with the identities of other Taiwanese agents who were working in China.
Wang returned to Taiwan in 2005 after his retirement, where he continued to expand China’s intelligence network within Taiwan. In 2013, he recruited his junior, retired colonel Lin Han (林翰), into his operations. [FULL STORY]
