{"id":35815,"date":"2023-10-26T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35815"},"modified":"2023-10-26T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:40:16","slug":"taiwan-ex-colonel-gets-20-years-for-spying-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35815","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan ex-colonel gets 20 years for spying for China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A retired Taiwan air force colonel has been jailed 20 years for running a military spy ring for China.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liu Sheng-shu was convicted of recruiting other active-duty officers to transmit military secrets to Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five other officers &#8211; from the navy and air force &#8211; were jailed from six months to 20 years for their involvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local media reports say Liu was recruited during a 2013 business trip to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He reportedly ran a network of informants, paying them through shell companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors said that he was paid for passing on military intelligence, such as details on the functions of airplanes and warships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from his jail sentence, authorities confiscated NT$16.7m (\u00a3425,000; $514,000) which they said were illicit earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: A retired Taiwan air force colonel has been jailed 20 years for running a military spy ring for China. Liu Sheng-shu was convicted of recruiting other active-duty officers to transmit military secrets to Beijing. Five other officers &#8211; from the navy and air force &#8211; were jailed from six months to 20 years for their involvement. Local media reports say Liu was recruited during a 2013 business trip to China. He reportedly ran a network of informants, paying them through shell companies. Prosecutors said that he was paid for passing on military intelligence, such as details on the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35817,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815\/revisions\/35817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}