◎ Wu Guodong
A few days ago, Zhang Junjie, the former director of the congressional office of non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei, once again attracted attention after absconding after abandoning bail and absconding on suspicion of violating the National Security Law and being involved in the case of transnational and cross-strait money laundering and development organizations in Taiwan.
Non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei's chief accountant Zhang Junjie jumped bail and absconded. (File photo)
As an assistant Chen Junwei was arrested and under interrogation voluntarily confessed the "flash drive" that Zhang Junjie had handed over before he escaped, the tip of the iceberg of this communist espionage network that had been hidden in the Congress Hall for more than ten years was finally revealed.
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Before Zhang Junjie fled, he met Chen Junwei (right), an assistant in Gaojin's office. The prosecutors urgently arrested him on September 8 and brought him to trial. (File photo)
In the past week, public opinion originally believed that the reason why Zhang Junjie sabotaged electronic monitoring equipment and fled on bail was simply because he was "fleeing" because he was prosecuted for fraudulently obtaining assistant fees and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. It was not until the High People's Procuratorate launched a national security search recently that the outside world woke up: Zhang Junjie's escape was not a case of corruption, but most likely because he was alerted to the fact that the "National Financial Eyes" had discovered that he had accepted over 100 million yuan in Chinese-funded communist espionage funds from Hong Kong, so he was forced to abandon bail and flee. In response, lawyer Huang Diying bluntly said, "Gao Jin Sumei is in big trouble."
While the outside world is paying attention, many people are also curious: Why did the prosecutors quickly confirm that Zhang Junjie was involved in a major national security case after he fled, and even detained all the current office directors and assistants? The core key to solving the case is not traditional follow-up and surveillance, but the "financial eye" created by Taiwan's modern financial system and the "Money Laundering Prevention Act".
Judicial case handling requires that "one piece of evidence tells the same story." In national security cases, words are unfounded and only the "flow of funds" cannot deceive people. The prosecutor found that Zhang Junjie was suspected of using the personal accounts of relatives and friends to intensively receive high-priced foreign currency remittances from Hong Kong, amounting to hundreds of millions of New Taiwan dollars. This huge amount of Chinese capital was used to fund specific "cultural exchanges" and "tribal studies" to attract members in Taiwan with free room and board. The reason why this set of criminal links came to light is that Taiwan's "Money Laundering Prevention Act" stipulates that financial institutions have "reporting obligations for cash transactions exceeding NT$500,000" and the "suspected money laundering transaction reporting (STR)" mechanism within banks.
If there are "frequent, intensive, and inconsistent with identity" sudden large sums of foreign currency or Taiwan dollars in and out of the account, regardless of whether the amount is exactly 500,000 yuan, the bank's internal system will trigger a "suspected money laundering transaction report." From the spy case of Zhang Junjie, to the Tzu Chi Foundation being defrauded of NT$1.6 billion in commissions by female lawyer Chen Yuxuan and broker Li Yiru in recent years. The suspects intensively withdrawn large amounts of cash and purchased gold in large quantities, and were notified by banks that all the stolen goods were stolen. It has been proven time and again that criminals can use political connections as a cover, and they can also use their professional image to gain trust, but as long as "money transfer" is involved, under the money laundering prevention system, they will eventually leave indelible digital footprints.
From Zhang Junjie's spy case to Tzu Chi being defrauded of 1.06 billion in commissions by the mysterious female lawyer Chen Yuxuan, it has been proven time and again that as long as "money transfer" is involved, under the money laundering prevention system, it will eventually leave an indelible digital footprint. (Taken from Facebook)
Looking around the world, the most representative example of this financial eye that "locks in crime with cash flow" is the case of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy that has recently shocked the European political arena. Sarkozy was accused of receiving millions of euros in secret illegal political donations from Libyan dictator Gaddafi through black market and suitcase money laundering channels during the 2007 presidential campaign. This huge transnational case, which spanned more than ten years, was initially traced by relying on the international joint intelligence defense of the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF), intercepting abnormal capital chains through third-party financial institutions such as the United Kingdom, and strictly examining the accounts of "Politically Eminent Persons (PEP)". Sarkozy was eventually sentenced to five years in prison and served in prison in 2025, which reflects the majesty of Skynet in the face of financial technology.
The 70-year-old former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined 100,000 euros by a Paris court for the "Gaddafi Donation Case". He will still have to go to jail even if he appeals, becoming the first former president in modern French history to be sentenced to actual imprisonment. (AP)
Returning to the situation in Taiwan, the flash drive belonging to Assistant Gao Jin Sumei’s espionage case has been seized, and the account books and the list of accomplices are under inspection. Although normal cross-Strait cultural and economic and trade exchanges are freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, if in the name of exchanges one actually accepts illegal funds from overseas hostile forces to develop organizations in Taiwan, this is an out-and-out national security crime.
In response, Gao Jin Sumei, who has been silent for many days, countered on Facebook, claiming that the detention of core staff members under the National Security Law "reminisces about the turbulent martial law era when political dissidents were oppressed with the charge of "communist espionage"." This stereotyped reaction of trying to throw out the "political persecution card" is obviously difficult to resonate with the public in the face of contemporary Taiwan's democratic society and solid financial evidence. Just as the Democratic Progressive Party later strongly questioned: "If you think you are not wrong, why did you run away and become a wanted criminal?" Democratic Taiwan's judiciary has long said goodbye to the arresting people and extracting confessions in the authoritarian era, and instead handles cases based on evidence such as transnational financial flows and account books. The public must ask: If there is really no illegality and it is purely a "political liquidation", why would the chief accountant Zhang Junjie cut off his electronic bracelet and escape in embarrassment with the gang? After all, political rhetoric cannot cover up the irrefutable financial footprints, and Gao Jin Sumei cannot cover up the serious national security responsibilities of the core staff collectively involved in the case just by saying she does not know.
Ko Jin Sumei counterattacked on Facebook, claiming that core staff were detained under the National Security Law, which was reminiscent of the martial law era. (Taken from Gao Jin Sumei’s Facebook page)
The biggest revelation from this congressional conspiracy case to Taiwanese society is that the greatest vulnerability of a democratic country lies in openness, but the strongest line of defense lies in the rule of law and system. In the face of the pervasive infiltration of the CCP, regardless of the political affiliation or personal network of those involved, as long as we adhere to the financial reporting eyes of the Money Laundering Prevention Act and accurately trace abnormal "overseas funds", we will be able to cut off the flow of black money at the source and completely stop the CCP's infiltration step by step. Taiwan's national security defense line relies on this financial skynet that is in line with international standards to continue to safeguard democracy and the rule of law.
(The author is a retired trade promoter)
