The Bureau of Investigation prevented foreign funds from intervening in the election, raided 54 cases and traced illegal financial flows of more than 62.8 billion

In order to prevent illegal overseas funds from intervening in Taiwan's elections, the Bureau of Investigation has successively swept 54 cases across Taiwan and traced a total of 62.86971 million yuan in illegal criminal cash flow, including the Sihai Gang transnational money laundering group, large-scale purchase of Shopee accounts to sell counterfeit goods for money laundering, underground exchange money laundering by Chinese spouses, scrap hardware illegal groups, and money laundering cases of foreign funds through headcount companies.

Among them, the Keelung Station of the Aviation Industry Investigation Division investigated a case of smuggling 200 kilograms of narcotics in a container last year. Following the clues, it was discovered that Dong Yunsheng, secretary of the Sihai Gang, and his subordinates had set up a money laundering room. They laundered up to 8.4 billion yuan in black money overseas through methods such as headcount companies and fake account books, making it the largest transnational gang laundering group in Taiwan.

The criminal group found customers who wanted to remit money to China, agreed on the exchange amount, exchange rate, handling fee and collection account, and then transferred New Taiwan dollars to the suspect's personal account through bank teller or online banking transfer. It also used the Chinese account and Alipay account of the Chinese spouse Chen's daughter to remit RMB to the customer's designated Chinese account to complete the exchange transaction between New Taiwan dollars and RMB, laundering an amount of 170 million yuan.

The husband and wife team surnamed Chen set up a scrap hardware company as a cover to launder money, evade taxes and fraudulently receive tax refunds through the headcount company. Their amateur racing driver surnamed Huang served as the foreman. The amount of money laundered exceeded 10 billion yuan. The prosecutors investigated, searched and interviewed 37 people, and seized nearly 50 million yuan in cash, Lamborghini and many other luxury cars.

The Chinese company cooperated with the woman surnamed Huang and others to recruit Shopee accounts in the community for a monthly rent of 2,500 yuan, and bind the accounts with real-name authentication. Starting from June 2023, they purchased more than 400 Shopee accounts in large quantities, and transferred them to the Chinese company to sell counterfeit Bluetooth headsets, cloud-penetrating arrows and other items. After paying the price according to the instructions of the transfer company, they then transferred the money from the capitation account to an overseas account, laundering more than 4 billion yuan.

The Bureau of Investigation reminds candidates and the public not to accept or assist in the transfer of Chinese or foreign capital into the country through underground remittances or various money laundering channels to use as election campaign funds to participate in elections.