BackExclusive》Typhoon August 8 caused penetration holes! Gaojin Group's red money "shops" into the hometown, and the number of votes increases year by year
Exclusive》Typhoon August 8 caused penetration holes! Gaojin Group's red money "shops" into the hometown, and the number of votes increases year by year
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Exclusive》Typhoon August 8 caused penetration holes! Gaojin Group's red money "shops" into the hometown, and the number of votes increases year by year

Accused of using the name of 88 Typhoon Relief to introduce funds and develop organizations

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  • Non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei and his team were accused of using the name of typhoon disaster relief on August 8 to introduce Chinese funds and develop communist espionage organizations.
  • The prosecutor's investigation revealed that the team gained people's support through cash distribution and post-disaster reconstruction projects, and left relevant project records in Pingtung and other places.

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After the 88 typhoon, prosecutors investigated and accused Gao Jinsumei's team of using the name of disaster relief to introduce Chinese funds. The funds are alleged to be used to buy people's hearts and develop organizations.

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Non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei and others were involved in forming the "Team of the Land of the Ancestral Spirits", which introduced a huge sum of 170 million yuan to develop a communist espionage organization. They were prosecuted under the National Security Law. The prosecutors exposed their tactics to win over the indigenous people. After the 88 typhoon, the native tribes had several similar road projects, and the funding was completely opaque. The Ma government at that time turned a blind eye and allowed "red money" to flow into the native villages to win over people's hearts.

It is understood that the 88 Typhoon devastated the entire Taiwan, but in the name of disaster relief, it became an excuse for Gaojin and its "big accountant" Zhang Junjie to let red funds cross the border and go straight into the Central Mountains. First, Gaojin led a high-profile delegation of Taiwanese ethnic minorities to China in 2009, and was met by Hu Jintao, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and brought back 20 million yuan (nearly NT$100 million) from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.

At that time, Gaojin applied for scholarships of 30,000 yuan per household and 5,000 yuan per person in the disaster-stricken areas of the original hometown and for students above high school, and the scholarships were quickly distributed within 48 days. Although it has attracted questions about using red money to tie stakes in tribes and using different standards to judge "disaster victims", even though Dali brought the red money into the country and distributed it in cash, it was not vigorously investigated by the Ma government.

Nearly 100 million in red money was tacitly sprinkled into the heart of Taiwan, allowing Gaojin and Zhang Junjie's hometown to travel more unimpeded. In addition to cash, the "Taiwan Aboriginal Multi-Ethnic Cultural Exchange Association", which Zhang Junjie held real power, also used the name of disaster relief at that time. Fang Yaojiao brought the township chiefs in need of disaster repairs to the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council in Beijing. The Ma government has not stopped him yet. Later, he actually brought back the red money from the China Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait to "pave the way" and set up a completion sign "Cross-strait mutual assistance, heart and hand" along the way to leave evidence.

There are at least 4 mountain roads paved with red money in Laiyi and Kasuga Township in Pingtung, but there is no guarantee that more roads will not have been buried in the barren mountains and mountains. This wave of operations has also become a turning point for Gaofin in politics. The number of votes has increased year by year. By 2020, there will be a dominance situation of "one person gets 2 votes". The biggest storm in modern times has become a breach for red money to penetrate into Taiwan.

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Prosecutors will continue to investigate the flow of funds for relevant projects

    Likely · Within months

Open Questions

  • What is the current progress of the judicial proceedings?
  • Are there any other unexposed engineering projects?

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