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The entrance to the New Taipei City District Prosecutors’ Office is pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: Wang Ting-chuan, Taipei Times
ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Chinese Youth Development Union deputy director Sun Chih-chuang was held incommunicado following a search conducted on Friday
By Wu Cheng-feng / Staff reporter, with CNA
A man was detained on suspicion of providing Chinese Communist Party （CCP） money to a Labor Party candidate who last year ran for a New Taipei City councilor seat.
A search was conducted on Friday and, following questioning, the New Taipei City District Court approved a request by the New Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office to hold Chinese Youth Development Union deputy director Sun Chih-chuang （孫志全） incommunicado.
A Chinese man surnamed Da （笪）, who is a member of the Federation of Hong Kong Jiangsu Youth, was also questioned, and was released on bail of NT$100,000.
Prosecutors said that Sun and Da had contravened the Anti-infiltration Act （反滲透法）.
The Labor Party candidate, Wang Cheng （王正）, is prohibited from leaving the country, prosecutors said.
On the CCP’s instruction, Sun and Da in September last year allegedly wired US$13,000 from Hong Kong to Wang’s
bank account in Taiwan to help finance his campaign, which included the purchase of campaign items such as banners, advertisements, masks and tissues to be distributed to voters, prosecutors said.
In other news, prosecutors are investigating multiple borough war ens in Taichung, as well as officials from Hsinchu County who allegedly accepted free trips to China.
The cases are all related to next month’s elections, authorities said.
However, the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） has said that the investigations are a blatant attempt by the government to use the justice system to interfere in the presidential election.
Dozens of suspects in Taichung and Hsinchu have been called in for questioning by prosecutors.
Several of the suspects called in for questioning, including a Hsinchu County councilor from the KMT, have been granted bail.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
