Taiwan General Sued Lifetime Punishment

[Taipei] A general of Taiwan was arrested for drugged with offers of money and sex of a mainland Chinese intelligence agents. This is the worst espionage scandal in Taiwan in 50 years. Similarly, local media reported on Thursday (10 / 2).

The general name is Major-General Lo Hsien-che. According to the China Times, citing a source, the general accused of honeymoon trip to Thailand between 2002-2005 along with agents from Chinese women aged 30 years.

"Served with sex and money by Chinese intelligence agents, the Lo used by China to supply important information that he signed into China," wrote the newspaper.

According to the newspaper, the woman dilukiaskan tall, beautiful and sexy, holds an Australian passport and claimed to work in the field of import export trade when he met Lo. In fact, at that Lo was married.

Lo is now aged 51 years gathering information for her in 2004 and receives payment up to 200,000 dollars in the United States when the top secret information it conveys to the beautiful and sexy women.

Although in 2005, Lo returned to Taiwan, Lo still working for Chinese intelligence agents and met with him in the United States. There he again gave confidential information to the woman.

But Lo is able to wrap it tightly as possible so that their activities are not known to his superiors even in 2008 he received a promotion to major general.

Lo is Head of the Department of Telecommunications and Electronic Information Military when detained last month.

Taiwanese military officials say the problem was as the worst scandal in China espionage case to Taiwan in the last half century. "We do not know any other problems," said a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing when asked to comment about the case.

Tabloid controlled by the Chinese Government, the Global Times quoted Li Fei, an expert on Taiwan at the center of Southeast Asia studies Xianmen Chinese University, said both Taiwan and China are still mutual espionage action.

"Espionage activity has never stopped despite the tensions between the two countries declined in recent years terakhiri," said Li Fei said, adding that the target of espionage are military secrets, economics and technology.

Taiwan military who have formed groups warn of damage control that China has never stopped infiltrated to Taiwan, although the relationship between Taiwan and mainland China getting warmer in recent years.

Taiwan and China are spying on each other from Taiwan expressed their own standing as the country in 1949 during civil war in China ended. Beijing claims Taiwan as part of the island territory and is awaiting reunification. Even for reunification, if need be by force of arms. [AFP/A-21]