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BackLegislator Gao Jin Sumei’s former aide Zhang Junjie jumped bail and absconded. Prosecutors arrested another suspect and one person surrendered.
Legislator Gao Jin Sumei’s former aide Zhang Junjie jumped bail and absconded. Prosecutors arrested another suspect and one person surrendered.
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Legislator Gao Jin Sumei’s former aide Zhang Junjie jumped bail and absconded. Prosecutors arrested another suspect and one person surrendered.

Zhang Junjie is suspected of abandoning bail and absconding. The prosecutors continue to investigate the support network and have arrested 8 people in connection with the case. Chen Weida, a member of the Bamboo Alliance Pamper Association, also voluntarily surrendered today.

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  • Zhang Junjie, the former staff member of the non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei, abandoned bail and absconded.
  • The prosecutors continued to trace the connection network.
  • Yesterday, Wu Enting was arrested in Tainan on suspicion of providing a getaway vehicle.

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Legislator Gao Jin Sumei's "big accountant" Zhang Junjie is suspected of abandoning bail and absconding, and prosecutors continue to trace his escape and support network.

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Legislator Gao Jin Sumei's "big accountant" Zhang Junjie abandoned bail and absconded. The prosecutors continued to trace the connection network. Yesterday, Wu Enting was arrested in Tainan for allegedly providing a getaway vehicle. Today, he was transferred to the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office for retrial. He was ordered to pay a bail of 200,000 yuan in accordance with the criminal order of hiding. Bamboo Alliance Pampers Chen Weida, who was suspected of assisting Zhang in destroying an electronic bracelet in Da'an Forest Park, voluntarily surrendered in the afternoon accompanied by a lawyer, and is still under police investigation.

The prosecutors traced Zhang Junjie's escape route and successively arrested Chen Junwei, Zhou Huankai, Chen Yanan, Chen Junhan, Chen Houzhang, Pan Xinyi, Chen Caixun and others. Including Wu Enting, eight people have been arrested; Chen Weida surrendered separately.

The prosecutors filtered the surveillance cameras, vehicle trajectories and mobile phone calls along the way and found out that Zhang Junjie was last seen in Tainan on the 12th, and there were still people responding to him during this period. Wu Enting was arrested and charged in Tainan yesterday. Preliminary findings revealed that he was suspected of lending a licensed car to the person who picked up Zhang Junjie on the 11th. Wu Enting argued that he did not know Zhang Junjie and was asked by an unfamiliar friend to drive the car to deliver the car.

According to the prosecutor's investigation, Zhang Junjie first went to Xindian Coffee Shop to meet his assistant Chen Junwei on the 6th, and then went to Daan Forest Park to meet Chen Weida in the afternoon and destroyed the electronic bracelet. The two then took a taxi to Wanhua and Taoyuan, borrowing the driver's mobile phone to contact Zhou Huankai on the way, and then left separately. Chen Weida voluntarily surrendered this afternoon. The prosecutors are clarifying whether he is the key person who helped destroy the electronic bracelet and whether he participated in planning the escape beforehand.

Zhou Huankai picked up Zhang Junjie at the junction of Tainan and Chiayi on the 7th, drove him around Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and other places, and then handed him over to Chen Houzhang in Chiayi. After Chen Houzhang briefly drove Zhang Junjie south, he handed him over to Chen Junhan who was driving a high-end commercial vehicle. Zhang Junjie changed clothes and cars along the way, and was assisted by different people in stages, in an attempt to make the investigation more difficult for the police.

After investigation by the prosecutors, Zhang Junjie originally planned to sneak out of Kaohsiung Port in the early morning of the 8th, but the national security, coast patrol and police systems had fully mobilized the investigation at that time, and the plan failed. Chen Junhan drove Zhang Junjie to continue moving in Kaohsiung and arranged for him to stay at a five-star hotel in Gushan District for a short rest. After the smuggling failed, Zhang Junjie was handed over to Chen Houzhang to take over.

Zhang Junjie continues to flee in the south. The last figure currently known to the prosecutors was in Tainan on the 12th. However, on the 11th, new clues emerged that Wu Enting provided the car, indicating that Zhang Junjie was still assisted in the later stages of his escape.

The task force is tracing to whom the car was actually handed over and who else took it over around the 12th. They hope to follow the vehicle, communications and cash flow to continue chasing Zhang Junjie out of his hiding place.

What to Watch

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  • The prosecutors will continue to trace the whereabouts and hiding place of Zhang Junjie

    Very likely · Within days

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  • Where is Zhang Junjie currently hiding?
  • Is there someone behind the scenes who helped plan the escape?

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