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Two Taiwanese businessmen on Wednesday were indicted for allegedly working on behalf of Chinese firms to recruit Taiwanese to research and design memory devices.
The suspects, surnamed Chen (陳) and Huang (黃), allegedly set up offices near the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu City to target employees in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries, the Hsinchu District Prosecutors’ Office said.
After months of surveillance, Hsinchu investigators, with support from the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau, raided the offices and residences of Chen and Huang, who are facing charges related to acting as fronts for Chinese-owned businesses to operate in Taiwan.
Prosecutors said that
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) yesterday sued Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) for slander after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politician publicly accused him of academic plagiarism.
Lin’s lawyer, Yang Long-yuan (楊隆源), told reporters that Wang’s claims that Lin had copied his master’s thesis from a research report commissioned by the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau were “false” and constituted slander.
Speaking to reporters earlier yesterday, Lin said he had asked Yang to file the defamation suit with the Hsinchu District Prosecutors’ Office to protect his reputation from accusations leveled by Wang during a news conference and a
Authorities this week raided 10 Chinese firms and questioned more than 70 people as part of a crackdown on suspected poaching of talent from Taiwanese semiconductor and high-tech sectors, the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said yesterday.
From Monday to yesterday, the bureau performed a series of unannounced raids in coordination with prosecutors in Hsinchu, New Taipei City, Taipei and Taoyuan, it said in a statement.
“The illegal poaching of Taiwan’s high-tech talent by Chinese companies has badly impacted our international competitiveness and endangered our national security,” the bureau said in a statement.
Taipei prosecutors earlier announced that they on Tuesday raided the