As Anti-Infiltration Bill Being Railroaded, Arrests Have Been Made Involving Dummy Associations Helping Mainlanders in Fake Exchanges

As Anti-Infiltration Bill Being Railroaded, Arrests Have Been Made Involving Dummy Associations Helping Mainlanders in Fake Exchanges

Source: UDN & China Times

December 12, 2019

Hung Ching-lin (洪慶淋), Chairman of the Water Resources Economic Development Association in New Taipei City, faced charges of establishing at least 12 “dummy associations for cross-strait exchanges”. He used invitations and exchange programs from these dummy associations, in collusion with more than 20 domestic travel agencies, to assist Mainlanders in “sightseeing tours disguised in exchanges”.

It is estimated that since 2017, more than 5000 Mainland officials had visited Taiwan in the name of “short-term professional exchanges”. According to the National Immigration Agency, in 2017 it already found out that Hung and his relatives and friends had established many such associations, and the case was already referred to national security departments for investigation.

Some in legal circles questioned that the prosecutors did not make big moves until this moment when the DPP was railroading the “Anti-Infiltration Bill”, thus making the case highly political.

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