Lite-On founder released in insider trading probe
Staff writer, with CNA
Lite-On Technology Corp (光寶科技) founder Raymond Soong (宋恭源) was yesterday released on NT$30 million (US$1.06 million) bail after being questioned over alleged insider trading, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said.
Close friends of Soong who allegedly received insider information from him were also released after being questioned by prosecutors.
Soong’s friend Shan Ya-wen (單雅文) was freed on NT$30 million bail and his sister released on NT$3.5 million bail.
Lite-On Technology Corp founder Raymond Soong is escorted to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office early yesterday morning for further questioning about an insider trading case.
2021/02/23 12:57 Kuo (left), Wang. (New Taipei Police photos) Kuo (left), Wang. (New Taipei Police photos) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwanese prosecutors last week issued a warrant for a Singaporean couple for the murder of their baby, but a request for DNA has been rejected by the Singaporean authorities. On Feb. 16, the Taipei District Prosecutor s Office issued a warrant for a 25-year-old male surnamed Wang (王) and a 26-year-old female surnamed Kuo (郭) for homicide and infanticide. However, the Singaporean authorities that same day rejected a request for the couple s DNA due to the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. According to prosecutors, Wang and Kuo arrived in Taipei on Feb. 19, 2019, ostensibly for a holiday. Staff at the hotel they stayed at in Wanhua District s Ximending area said when the couple first checked in, Kuo s abdomen was enlarged, and she appeared to be pregnant.
Four ex-officials charged in spy case
SPY GAMES: For more than 20 years, intelligence officers traveled to China, where they identified other MIB personnel and allegedly traded secrets for money and gifts
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday indicted four retired Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB) officials, who are accused of providing China with a list of bureau personnel and other classified materials while attempting to recruit colleagues into a spy network in Taiwan.
Prosecutors charged Chang Chao-jan (張超然), Chou Tien-tzu (周天慈) and Wang Ta-wang (王大旺), former colonels at the bureau, and Yueh Chih-chung (岳志忠) a former major general and chief of the MIB’s Fifth Bureau, where he was in charge of sending agents to China on covert assignments with breaches of the National Security Act (國家安全法) and the National Intelligence Services Act (國家情報�
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