Ex-presidential assistant gets convicted for spying for China in Taiwan

2025-09-29 05:54:23

(MENAFN) A former presidential assistant and three other employees of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were convicted by a Taiwan court for espionage on behalf of China.

One of the convicted men was employed in the office of Joseph Wu, who was the Foreign Minister at the time and currently serves as the national security head.

The men were given four-to-ten-year jail sentences for leaking state secrets. The verdict specified that the spying was carried out "over a very long period of time" as well as included disclosing "important diplomatic intelligence."

Despite their decades-long history of mutual espionage, Taipei claims that the spying activity by Beijing, which considers democratically-governed Taiwan its territory, has escalated recently.

Huang Chu-jung, an ex-assistant to a Taipei councilor, got the longest sentence of the four men convicted on Thursday: 10 years in jail. Prosecutors had originally asked for terms as long as 18 years.

The charges against all four individuals were filed in June, one month after the DPP sacked them from the party.

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