Voice of America (VOA) recently ran a story on guards working at the Taiwanese Presidential Palace who sold information to the Chinese Government. Those charged include members of the elite Military Police 211th Battalion, known as the “Number One Battalion of the Nation.”
On December 6, 2024, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office indicted four individuals on charges including violations of the National Security Act, including three non-commissioned officers from the 211th Battalion and a soldier from the Ministry of National Defense’s Information, Communications, and Electronic Force. The charged individuals are accused of reselling classified military documents to Chinese intelligence personnel. Allegedly, starting from April 2022, they secretly photographed classified documents at their workplaces using their mobile phones and sent them to Chinese intelligence agents. They received a total payment of NT$1.84 million (US$56,000) in exchange for this information.
Source: VOA, December 6, 2024
https://www.voachinese.com/a/taiwan-president-office-mps-being-chinese-spy-20241206/7889458.html