All admitted! 4 Military UAV tenders use Chinese-made chips, Du Dasen argued that China cannot completely make them

Du Dasen, the head of Alto Technology, who is known as the "King of Remote Control Helicopters", was suspected of passing off Chinese-made chips and circuit boards as Taiwanese products, and obtained four military procurement bids in a row. He also asked employees to remove the Made in China label and deliberately hide the source of the parts. Du Dasen fully pleaded guilty during the interrogation, and even argued that Taiwan's drones are currently unable to be completely homemade. The Taichung District Prosecutor's Office is now prosecuting the case under the National Security Law and other crimes.

The prosecutor found that Du Dasen was the person in charge of Alto, Zhengzhi Precision and Suyuan, and his wife surnamed Huang served as the vice president of Altuo. Altuo had previously been suspended from prosecution for violating the government procurement law and was listed as a refused manufacturer. During the suspension period from July 2025 to July 2028, the couple actually participated in the government drone bidding project in the name of Zhengzhi and Suyuan. After winning the bid, Altuo was still responsible for production.

The Central Inspection Inspection found that four military procurement cases all involved Chinese-made chips or circuit boards, including the 394,000-yuan training drone case for the Army Academy, which used Beijing Ingenic T31 series image processors and Chinese-made chips, but was marked as originating in Taiwan; the 8.8 million-yuan bomb-delivery drone case for the Army Logistics Command, in which the receiver motherboards and lens modules in 32 drones were found to contain Puran chips and Chinese-made parts.

In addition, the Navy Zuoying Logistics Support Command's 6 million yuan purchase of a remote-controlled unmanned helicopter, the circuit board came from a manufacturer in Quanzhou, China, and part of the chip writing was scratched off; the National Defense Youth Daily's 870,000 yuan purchase of an aerial drone also used Chinese-made circuit boards from the same source.

During the prosecutor's interrogation, Du Dasen admitted that he mixed Chinese-made parts and argued that Taiwan lacked special chips for drones. China's abundant chips can support mold production. He even bluntly stated that "Taiwan's drones are currently unable to be completely homemade." He also emphasized that the drones purchased by the military are only for certification and training, and do not have signal transmission or state secret information.

The prosecutor believes that Du and Huang knew that the military procurement contract clearly prohibited the use of products from China, Hong Kong and Macao, and directly undermined the national defense and information defense systems for profit, fearing the leakage of national military secrets and battlefield investigation data. They exchanged private commercial interests at the expense of national security. They were prosecuted under the National Security Law and other charges, and specifically requested that they be sentenced to more than five years in prison.