Zhang Junjie smuggled out of Keelung on 10/28 after being on the run from Gaojin’s big account for nearly two months.

Zhang Junjie, the former office director of the non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei and the "big accountant", is on the run in connection with the Communist espionage case. It is said that he smuggled out of Keelung on the 28th of last month. (File photo)

Zhang Junjie, the former office director of the non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei and the "big accountant", has been on the run for about two months in connection with the Communist espionage case. The prosecutors and police have been tracking his traces almost all over Taiwan. The latest news points out that Zhang Junjie left the country illegally from Keelung on the 28th of last month.

It is reported that the prosecutors reviewed the surveillance cameras and found that Zhang Junjie was confirmed to have left Taiwan by boat from Zhengbin Fishing Port in Keelung City on the 28th of last month. At that time, the coast patrol officers boarded the ship for inspection, but did not find that Zhang Junjie was on the ship.

According to people familiar with the matter, the joint task force once traced Zhang Junjie's whereabouts the day before his escape in mid-September. However, with the help of his accomplices, Zhang sneaked into the Tainan Supervision Station at night and fled to the nearby Dadong Night Market, using the crowd as cover. He traveled to mountainous areas without surveillance cameras such as Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Pingtung, and frequently changed cars to set up breakpoints. When the task force worked hard to regain control of his whereabouts on September 15th, it was already early October, a full two weeks behind Zhang Junjie's escape.

This case started when Zhang Junjie cut off the electronic handcuffs. In the past sixty days, the police from Keelung in the north to Pingtung in the south have checked countless surveillance cameras and arrested a lot of cooperators, but they have never been able to trace Zhang Junjie. People familiar with the matter pointed out that if he is arrested, it may have an impact on the Bailihou election at the end of this month, and it is not ruled out that there will be support from other than local forces or even stronger ones.