In recent years, fraud has been rampant in Taiwan, and it has even gained a reputation as the "island of fraud". According to the Asian Fraud Survey Report, 60% of Taiwan people face fraud every week, and 20% of them face fraud every day. According to the statistics of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities, in 2023, there will be nearly 40,000 fraud cases on the island, resulting in property losses of 8.8 billion yuan (NT$, the same below), both hitting a new high in six years. Investment, online shopping, and uninstallment scams are the top three.
"People go as they please, and swindlers are everywhere." The island's Internet celebrity "Miss Kaohsiung Lin" recently conducted an online survey, asking netizens "What is Taiwan's strongest ability and can be regarded as the world's first?" As a result, "fraud" received the most support from 62%, and Lai Qingde's "washing people's hearts" ranked second, with 16%.
Previously, Lai Qingde had also declared that "cracking down on fraud, anti-gangsterism, and anti-corruption" was an important task for the authorities, in order to "respond to the people's profound expectations, and it has to be." Ironically, however, this statement did not boost confidence in the fight against fraud. Because in the eyes of netizens and many people on the island, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party itself is a fraud group, "scamming every day", and "green politicians are the first in the world to spread rumors". Moreover, they also have a "nest of snakes and rats, a hill of raccoons" with the fraud group, "blackmailing the Taiwan team, about to become a fraud Taiwan team, can you count on blackmail?" ”
The latest data shows that in the past year or so, Taiwan stocks, AI investment fever, and social network investment fraud on the island have not decreased. From April last year to the end of June this year, the total number of Google and Facebook investment fraud cases alone has reached 45,000, and the number in the first half of the year alone has reached 26,000. There are even fraud groups that carry out fraud in the name of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou and others. Xie Jinhe, chairman of Taiwan Caixin Media, who was impersonated to commit fraud, was so angry that he scolded: "Fraud is rampant, I really don't know, why the government has no way at all!" ”
According to media reports on the island, a number of procurators bitterly criticized the Taiwan authorities' "Financial Supervisory Commission," "Digital Department," and NCC (Communications and Communications Authority) at an internal fraud seminar in April this year for their inefficiency, laziness, and incompetence in their efforts to crack down on fraud, resulting in a fourfold increase in fraud cases in five years, which is almost like a state of anarchy.
Now, there is another organ that does not act on the issue of extortion on the island: the courts. On August 1, the first-instance verdict of the sensational real estate lending platform "im.B fraud case" on the island was announced, and the main suspect Zeng Yaofeng and his girlfriend Zhang Shufen were sentenced to 16 years and 6 months and 12 years and 2 months respectively. This fraud case involved 8.3 billion yuan, and more than 7.1 billion yuan of stolen money is still unknown.
What makes the outside world even more suspicious is that the main suspect Zeng Yaofeng was a wanted criminal before, and he has a background in the Four Seas Gang, and he even has close contacts with the top management of the green camp, and has interacted with celebrities such as Zheng Wencan, the former second-in-command of the administrative agency, and Chen Opal, the former representative of the Democratic Progressive Party, to mislead the public to invest. He even provided Chen Opal with a campaign office and a ride.
In the trial of this case, only Chen Zhenkun, a former adviser to the administrative agency, was sentenced to one year with a four-year suspended sentence for money laundering. And Chen Opal and Zheng Wencan have not been investigated so far. Such tolerance for fraud accomplices has also sparked criticism of the island's judiciary for "turning around when it encounters the powerful." Li Yanxiu, a representative of the Kuomintang People's Congress, believes that this is an unpleasant collusion between officials and businessmen, and that Lai Qingde's "zero tolerance for extortion" is only to deceive a 3-year-old child, and that the East Window incident is an accomplice structure.
And the fraud case involving the green camp is far from a single one. The person in charge of the "88 Association" in Tainan, Guo Zhemin, who is involved in money laundering, gambling and fraud, has involved a number of high-level prosecutors and politicians of the DPP authorities, and the structure of black and gold accomplices is obvious. Recently, the Blue and White People's Representatives broke the news that the green media Sanli Group cooperated with the fraud group "ACE Exchange" to open a blockchain program for fraud publicity. What's even more outrageous is that the fraud syndicate has also received financial subsidies from the authorities' economic department, and its main suspect has also been a guest on the YouTube channel of the government's foreign trade association. Questioned, "The government actually endorsed the fraud group?" ”。
In this regard, some people on the island pointed out that "the whole from top to bottom, fraud is a one-stop" and "the fraud group is one of the important sources of gold flow in Taluban, which seems to be an open secret?" "Together, the industry knows that a few of their liars gave a lot of political donations to some people!"
Obviously, the DPP has long been deeply involved in the problems of fraud, black money, and corruption, which the people on the island are concerned about and deeply hate, and it is difficult to extricate itself. The intertwinedness and symbiosis of interests cannot be eliminated at all. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has also become the biggest supporter and beneficiary of fraud and black money. High-end vaccines, imported eggs, Zheng Wencan's decoding of farmland, and Lin Zhijian's thesis case are emerging one after another, which are actually real evidence that the DPP is deceiving the people.
Faced with the dilemma of being difficult to return, Lai Qingde had no choice but to come to power. What's more, its own "Lai Piliao" and the Tainan photoelectric case are also full of suspicions, and it is difficult to escape the involvement. All he can do is some superficial work, selectively dispose of it, and use "feints" to deceive the people and win favor.
Since Lai Qingde took office, he has only been most concerned about the ruling position of the DPP and his personal power. He is only obsessed with waging political struggles and cognitive warfare to "cleanse people's hearts". They don't care about the people's living and working in peace and contentment, and they can't hear the people's aspirations for peace, development, and a better life. As criticized by people on the island, this is not a collective fraud, but what is a collective fraud? "How do you want the people to trust?" "This is not the norm for Taiwan to move in the direction of goodness."
It can be said that the DPP is now the largest licensed fraud syndicate on the island. In social governance, they say one thing and do another, only for the sake of electoral interests, and only know how to deal with opposition parties and political opponents, treat themselves leniently, and discipline others strictly. "Eat copper, eat iron, eat the government, deceive people, money, and votes."
In cross-strait relations, the DPP and Lai Ching-te have even beautified and packaged their "Taiwan independence" ideas with such words as "democracy and freedom" and "Taiwan's Juche consciousness," inciting cross-strait confrontation and creating a crisis in the Taiwan Strait. With false narratives such as "going to the world" and "maintaining peace", they have surrendered to the US and Western camps, constantly armed themselves, and vainly tried to seek "independence" by relying on foreign countries and "independence" by force. These practices will only lead the people of Taiwan into the abyss of disaster and war. The name of "loving Taiwan" is actually "harming Taiwan" and "selling Taiwan," which is an out-and-out political fraud. It will not only empty the hard-earned money of the Taiwan people, but also endanger their well-being and interests. Sooner or later, his sinister intentions will be seen through and he will lose the trust of the people.
Source: Voice of the Straits