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Taiwan charges 10 over alleged smuggling of US chips to China

Prosecutors in Taiwan have charged 10 company leaders over allegations that Texas Instruments and Analog Devices military-grade chips were diverted to China. The shipments reportedly used forged paperwork in the name of Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and were marked as made in Taiwan. Investigators believe the parts ended up with Chinese research groups developing missiles and military radar.

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Taiwanese prosecutors have accused ten executives of arranging exports of high-speed military-industrial components made by Texas Instruments and Analog Devices. The parts appear on Taiwan’s strategic high-tech commodities list, and U.S. rules bar their shipment to China, Hong Kong, or Macau without end-user statements. Prosecutors say forged documents invoked NCSIST or other Taiwanese firms to suggest domestic use, while the goods were labeled as Taiwanese despite production in the U.S., Thailand, the Philippines, and South Korea.

The alleged buyers were Hong Kong entities or firms controlled from mainland China, and investigators suspect the components reached Chinese groups working on missiles and radar. The defendants allegedly earned large sums, with three main groups making NT$92.75 million, NT$135.83 million, and NT$108.11 million. Charges include fraud, forgery, and money laundering; prosecutors seek two to ten years per defendant and confiscation of proceeds.

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