Taiwan's spy agency says China working with gangs, shell companies to gain intelligence on Taiwan
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The arrests are in line with China's stepped-up campaign of military intimidation, economic coercion and «gray area» tactics such as utilizing the internet to promote unification and providing all-expense-paid trips to China to low-level government officials.
According to a report released over the weekend by Taiwan's National Security Bureau, Chinese agents have sought to use the Taiwanese underworld to channel funds to those with information to sell. Gangs, many with origins dating to before the 1949 split between the two sides, are sought out, along with loan sharks, shell companies that can be used to launder funds, religious sects that sometimes engage in illegal activity, and non-profit groups, the report said.
Some payments are made in cryptocurrency, while old-fashioned methods are also used such as sexual seduction to trap unsuspecting targets and pressure them to reveal secrets. That was the case of a one-star general, Lo Hsien-che, who was caught in such a scheme while stationed in Thailand, the bureau said.
Among those arrested last year were 23 people working together in a spy ring, one of whom was sentenced to 20 years in prison, it said.
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