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Counter-intelligence agent sacked for sending Falun Gong materials to China

A Taiwan counter-intelligence agent has been sacked and faces prosecution for sending information to China about the Falun Gong spiritual movement that was banned by Beijing as a cult.

Li Kai-ping (厲開平) was dismissed from the Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday and faces charges of leaking state secrets for sending bureau reports on the Falun Gong to China via the Internet, a Justice Ministry spokesman said.

The bureau handed over Li's case to the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office on Thursday.

The spokesman said bureau agents investigated Li after receiving a tip-off. He declined to say what Li's motives were or who the recipients were.

Li was discovered in March to have sent the information to a Taiwanese investor in China.

The bureau initially gave him a major demerit, but Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan (陳定南) was unhappy with the penalty and ordered that the case be sent to the prosecutors' office as well as the ministry's evaluation committee, which meted out two major demerits to Li and dismissed him.

The Falun Gong movement is legal in Taiwan but banned in China.

Li claims that all the materials he sent to China were obtained on the Internet and therefore did not involve any leaking of state secrets.

In June, Taiwanese authorities arrested a businessman and his navy sergeant son for spying for China.
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