Four individuals indicted for allegedly funneling Chinese payments to Taiwanese service members

Taiwan's High Prosecutors’ Office has formally indicted four suspects for an alleged scheme that paid Taiwanese military personnel to transmit classified information to Chinese contacts. Retired military police captain Yu Cheng-yu, previously charged with accepting tether cryptocurrency for secrets, is accused of receiving digital currency between March and October 2024, selling it for cash and distributing the proceeds.

The other defendants - former servicemen Lee and Sen and coast guard member Tsai - are said to have supplied bank accounts that received the payments, with Lee alone receiving NT$884,000 and Sen and Tsai sharing NT$515,000. Prosecutors allege the group violated multiple statutes, including the Criminal Code of the Armed Forces, the National Security Act and anti-money-laundering laws. The case was transferred to the High Court, and the Investigation Bureau has been directed to continue probing the network.