Taiwanese man Ye Junjue was sentenced to 13 years in prison for smuggling in oil barrels and directing drug transportation.

Taiwanese men Ye Junjue and Wang Weizhe (who are wanted) actually hid in oil barrels and smuggled out to sea for 1.5 million yuan in resettlement expenses. They directed the connection of amphetamines and ketamines with a total weight of over 100 tons and a market value of more than 2 billion yuan on the high seas. Nine people were involved in the case. The Burmese crew member complained that he was just "acting as ordered." The first trial sentenced the mastermind Ye Junjue to 10 years in prison, and the remaining crew members were sentenced to 3 to 6 years in prison. The prosecutor appealed to the second trial, and the Kaohsiung High Court revoked the original verdict and sentenced Ye Junjue to 13 years in prison.

The verdict pointed out that in June last year, Ye Junjue's accomplice Wang Weizhe sneaked into Chiayi's Budai Port, huddled his body in a small oil drum, took a boat out to sea without anyone noticing, and boarded the Tanzanian freighter "Jinchang Dragon" wandering in the Taiwan-Penghu waters. Although the two men had no professional titles on the ship, they were the de facto "Emperors". They communicated with the mastermind "Ayi (identity unknown)" through a single line of satellite phone every day. They gave the navigation coordinates to the Myanmar captain and commanded the ship to wander off the coast of Malaysia and the Philippines.

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Late at night on June 19, a large number of drugs packaged in tea bags were moved into the Jinchang Dragon like a "Solitaire". Due to the large amount, the cabin bathroom and small room were packed tightly; the South Terminal Station of the Investigation Bureau and the Coast Guard were reported that 3 drugs were found southwest of Kaohsiung Port. At 50 nautical miles, it was discovered that the Jin Changlong was throwing drugs in sackcloth bags at sea to destroy the evidence. The coast patrol team boarded the ship to stop them and seized nearly 20 kilograms of pure amphetamines and up to 1,006 kilograms of ketamine, successfully preventing drugs from invading Taiwan.

During the trial in the Kaohsiung District Court, the main suspect Ye Nan confessed to the crime, but the Myanmar crew members played the "sadness card" one after another, arguing that they were only doing it to receive the meager salary of several hundred to 3,000 US dollars per month, and had no idea that what they were moving was drugs. They also said, "We can move whatever the boss tells us to move." The judge of first instance sentenced the mastermind Ye Junjue to 10 years in prison, and the remaining crew members were sentenced to 3 to 6 years in prison.

The prosecutor believed that the sentence was too light and appealed to the second instance. During the trial at the Kaohsiung High Court, the second instance judge believed that the crew received the cargo at sea late at night, the voyage was abnormal, and there was no other cargo on board. , the sentence was changed to prison terms ranging from 5 years to 8 years, and the crew member who served as a translator was found to be an accomplice and sentenced to 3 years. Although the main suspect Ye Junjue qualified for a reduced sentence because he confessed to the crime, the first instance sentence was too light and the sentence was changed to 13 years. The whole case can still be appealed.