Six people including the fishing boat captain and Chinese fishermen involved in Zhang Junjie's escape to China were detained.

Chinese fisherman Chen Huating (left) was detained by the Beijing Procuratorate early this morning for assisting Zhang Junjie to smuggle into the sea. (Photo by reporter Lin Jiadong)

Zhang Junjie, former director of the office of non-party legislator Gao Jin Sumei, was involved in a communist espionage case and had been on the run for two months. He is suspected of smuggling into China on a fishing boat late at night on the 28th of last month.

On the 4th, after the prosecutors seized the Zhengbin-registered "Manruifu No. 6" fishing boat suspected of carrying Zhang smuggling out of the country, they arrested seven people, including the female shipowner Li Fengjiao, the captain Huang Xinjia, the Chinese crew member at the helm Chen Huating, and four Indonesian crew members. After the Beijing Prosecutor's Office resumed the interrogation, it was determined late last night that Huang, Chen and the four crew members were guilty of hiding criminals and violating entry, exit and immigration laws. After petitioning the court to detain Huang, four Indonesian fishermen and other five people, they petitioned the court again to detain Chen Huating in the early morning of this (6) day. As for Li Fengjiao, she was granted bail of NT$100,000.

At 1:30 pm on the 5th, the Taipei Investigation Team of the Coast Guard’s Investigation and Defense Branch transferred Li Fengjiao, captain Huang Xinjia, Chinese fisherman Chen Huating, and four Indonesian fishermen to the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office for investigation on charges of obstructing official duties, hiding criminals, and violating entry, exit and immigration laws. After the prosecutor resumed the interrogation, at about 11 o'clock last night, it was determined that the "Manchu" female ship owner Li Fengjiao, the captain Huang Xinjia, and four Indonesian fishermen were all involved in obstructing official business, hiding criminals, and violating immigration and immigration laws. Among them, Huang was in danger of colluding with the four Indonesian fishermen and destroying their certificates. They applied to the court for detention; Li Fengjiao was also ordered to post a bail of NT$100,000.

After the prosecutors reinterrogated Chen Huating late into the early hours of this morning, they determined that Chen Huating was involved in obstruction of official duties, hiding criminals, and violation of immigration and immigration laws. He applied to the court for detention due to the risk of conspiracy to destroy the certificate.

The prosecutor initially determined that the fishing boat that carried Zhang Junjie out of the country was the "Manruifu No. 6". It was arranged by 49-year-old Chen Huating. After contacting the operator behind the scenes who assisted Zhang Junjie in smuggling, Chen Huating drove the fishing boat and took Zhang Junjie to the pre-agreed longitude and latitude, and handed it over to the Chinese fishing boat that came to meet him. Huang Xinjia, the 59-year-old captain of the "full" ship who had suffered a stroke, said that Chen Huating was driving the ship and did not know that Zhang Junjie was smuggled out to sea. Li Fengjiao said that she did not know what happened on the ship.