Lin Chen-yu Indicted for Bribery and Espionage, Qiaotou Court Rules Continued Detention
Central News Agency reporter Lin Chen-yu was indicted for allegedly receiving funds from foreign forces to produce anti-recall videos and bribing six active and retired military personnel to uncover military secrets. The Qiaotou District Court ruled for his continued detention.
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(Central News Agency reporter Hong Xueguang Kaohsiung 7th electric) Zhongtian reporter Lin Chen-yu was suspected of receiving funds from foreign forces to produce anti-recall videos, bribing 6 active and retired military personnel to film pro-CCP videos, and probing military secrets. After the Qiaotou District Prosecutors Office indicted Lin Chen-yu and 6 others, the Qiaotou District Court held a detention hearing this afternoon and ruled to continue detaining and prohibiting communication late tonight.
Lin Chen-yu was transported to the Qiaotou District Court at 10 am today. The judge scheduled a detention hearing at 4 pm. After questioning, Lin Chen-yu was ruled to be detained and prohibited from communication around 6 pm. Military personnel surnamed Hong, Zhong, Yang, Chen, and Lai were also detained and prohibited from communication. As for the military personnel surnamed Ke, he was not detained during the prosecutor's investigation, so he is not included in the defendants transferred this time.
The prosecution investigated that Lin Chen-yu, through his YouTube channel "What's wrong with Mad?", cooperated with a Chinese national nicknamed "Huang E-lan" and, according to instructions, targeted two waves of legislative recall cases voted on July 26 and August 23 last year, producing videos such as "Exposing the Six Dirty Tricks of the Green CCP" and "Grand Recall Grand Shutout" attacking specific political parties and politicians.
Video topics included anti-recall, Taiwan-US tariffs, and the DPP Kaohsiung mayoral primary election. Lin Chen-yu would send scripts to "Huang E-lan" for review in advance, and then send screenshots of video traffic back to request payment. Each video received a varying amount of Tether based on traffic, with one video discussing the DPP Tainan mayoral primary election receiving 2,000 Tether, the highest reward. In total, Lin Chen-yu received 4,325 Tether for producing programs, valued at approximately NT$130,000.
In addition, since 2023, Lin Chen-yu also provided 5 bank accounts under his name to foreign forces as a channel for bribing national military personnel, and each transfer could extract several hundred New Taiwan dollars in remuneration, thereby concealing criminal proceeds from money laundering. It is estimated that he illegally obtained approximately NT$169,493 from this.
The prosecution pointed out that although Lin Chen-yu admitted to transferring money to bribe military personnel, he argued that he did not know the source of the funds was from hostile foreign forces; he also confessed to producing programs under the instructions of hostile foreign forces. (Editor: Chen Ching-fang) 1150507
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Lin Chen-yu was transported to the Qiaotou District Court at 10 am today. The judge scheduled a detention hearing at 4 pm. After questioning, Lin Chen-yu was ruled to be detained and prohibited from communication around 6 pm. Military personnel surnamed Hong, Zhong, Yang, Chen, and Lai were also detained and prohibited from communication. As for the military personnel surnamed Ke, he was not detained during the prosecutor's investigation, so he is not included in the defendants transferred this time.
The prosecution investigated that Lin Chen-yu, through his YouTube channel "What's wrong with Mad?", cooperated with a Chinese national nicknamed "Huang E-lan" and, according to instructions, targeted two waves of legislative recall cases voted on July 26 and August 23 last year, producing videos such as "Exposing the Six Dirty Tricks of the Green CCP" and "Grand Recall Grand Shutout" attacking specific political parties and politicians.
Video topics included anti-recall, Taiwan-US tariffs, and the DPP Kaohsiung mayoral primary election. Lin Chen-yu would send scripts to "Huang E-lan" for review in advance, and then send screenshots of video traffic back to request payment. Each video received a varying amount of Tether based on traffic, with one video discussing the DPP Tainan mayoral primary election receiving 2,000 Tether, the highest reward. In total, Lin Chen-yu received 4,325 Tether for producing programs, valued at approximately NT$130,000.
In addition, since 2023, Lin Chen-yu also provided 5 bank accounts under his name to foreign forces as a channel for bribing national military personnel, and each transfer could extract several hundred New Taiwan dollars in remuneration, thereby concealing criminal proceeds from money laundering. It is estimated that he illegally obtained approximately NT$169,493 from this.
The prosecution pointed out that although Lin Chen-yu admitted to transferring money to bribe military personnel, he argued that he did not know the source of the funds was from hostile foreign forces; he also confessed to producing programs under the instructions of hostile foreign forces. (Editor: Chen Ching-fang) 1150507
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