Former Navy commander sentenced to 6-years for espionage
Central News Agency
2014-02-12 11:16 PM
Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) A former Navy commander was handed a relatively lenient sentence of six years by the Taiwan High Court's Kaohsiung Branch Court Wednesday for "preparing to" conduct espionage activities for Beijing.
The court's ruling overturns a military court's previous sentence of life behind bars for Chang Chih-hsin, a retired commander of the political warfare department at the Naval Meteorological and Oceanographic Office (Naval METOC Office).
The high court ruled that Chang, who started at the METOC Office in 2008 and retired in May 2012, was guilty of taking money from Chinese intelligence agents in 2010 in a scheme to recruit Chang into collecting military intelligence for China.
(By Cheng Che-fon and Elizabeth Hsu)
