The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office today indicted a sales director for illegally recruiting four former colleagues to work at a Chinese microelectronics company.
Shen Chi-te (慎基德) was recruited by Suzhou Novosense Microelectronics Co to set up a base in Taiwan, where he later recruited four former colleagues without approval from authorities, the office said.
Prosecutors indicted Shen on suspicion of contravening Article 40-1 of 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), which prohibits Chinese enterprises from engaging in any business activities in Taiwan without the proper permits.
Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau via CNA
After Shen was appointed as the East Asia sales director for Novosense in 2021, he rented an office in Taipei’s Daan District (大安).
The following year, he recruited four of his former colleagues from Texas Instruments to work for the China-based firm, paying their salaries using offshore human resources companies to wire US dollars from Singapore and Hong Kong to avoid detection, prosecutors said.
Novosense did not enroll Shen and his four recruits in standard company labor insurance and used other means to secure their health insurance, they said.
Shen obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University before working at US-based Texas Instruments.
The case came to light in July and August last year, when the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau began conducting searches of Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching Taiwanese tech talent.
Shen was then taken in for questioning and released on bail of NT$500,000.
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