The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office has indicted three people for allegedly facilitating illegal recruitment of tech researchers for Chinese companies.
The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau’s Kaohsiung branch found that Lin Chiu-pei’s (林秋培) company was allegedly helping recruit engineers and research personnel for Shanghai-based QST Corp Ltd (矽睿科技) in 2022, according to the indictment.
Lin at the time received deferred prosecution for one year and was fined NT$400,000 after admitting to helping hire engineers for US$7,000 a month.
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However, within the month following that, Lin allegedly started another company, Jui Chi (蕊屹), under the name of his friend Lin Cheng-ping (林正平) at the same site as his former company and continued to hire engineers for QST Corp, the indictment said.
The Kaohsiung branch forwarded the case to the Taipei branch, which questioned Lin Chiu-pei in May.
During questioning, Lin Chiu-pei said that he was an employee of QST Corp and that his company had business transactions with Jui Chi, according to the indictment.
He denied he was facilitating illegal recruitment for Chinese companies.
When asked why he had an office in Jui Chi, Lin Chiu-pei said it was to interface conveniently with Jui Chi engineers, according to the indictment.
However, the prosecutors’ office found that Lin Chiu-pei, Lin Cheng-ping and a worker surnamed Chen (陳) regularly reported to QST Corp on Jui Chi’s operations, it said.
They also sought QST Corp’s approval regarding Jui Chi’s internal management, including recruitment, work records and other details, it said.
Prosecutors charged all three with contravening the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例).
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