Chinese spouse, Chairman of the Taiwan New Immigrant Development AssociationXu ChunyingShe was detained on Thursday (November 27) after being investigated by the New Taipei District Prosecutors Office on charges of violating the Anti-Infiltration Act and the Banking Act, including allegations of assisting Ko Wen-je and Huang Shan-shan in their past election campaigns, engaging in underground cross-strait money exchange, and falsifying real estate documents to defraud tens of millions of New Taiwan Dollars. Latest reports indicate that she donated money in 2022 to another Chinese spouse running for Nantou County Councilor.Shi XueyanThis has attracted attention from the outside world.
According to data from a political donation platform, a donor with the same name "Xu Chunying" and registered in New Taipei City donated NT$6600 to Shi Xueyan, a candidate for Nantou County Councilor, on June 12, 2022.
It is worth noting that Shi Xueyan is also a Chinese spouse and ran for Nantou County Councilor in 2018. She briefly served as a county councilor due to the councilor replacement system, but failed to win re-election in 2022 and was removed from her position by the Ministry of the Interior in December of the same year in accordance with the Nationality Act.
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Regarding Hsu Chun-ying's detention and related charges, Taiwan People's Party Deputy Convenor Huang Shan-shan expressed shock on Friday (28th), emphasizing that Hsu Chun-ying has long been involved in new immigrant affairs and believes that seeking support during elections is normal behavior. She called on the public to wait for the judicial process to clarify the matter and stressed that the principle of "presumption of innocence" should be upheld to avoid treating suspects as criminals before the facts are established.
