New Taipei District Prosecutors Office Indicts 10 Taiwanese Businesses for Smuggling Military-Grade Chips Under the Name of NCSIST
On October 7, Taiwan's New Taipei District Prosecutors Office indicted 10 business operators, alleging that since 2017 they had used the names of the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and others to purchase high-speed military-grade chips from Texas Instruments and Analog Devices, altered the outer packaging to launder the origin before illegally selling them to China and Hong Kong, and profited more than NT$300 million; prosecutors are seeking a maximum sentence of 10 years for the principal suspect.