🇹🇼❌🇨🇳🕵🏻 — 🇭🇰 South China Morning Post | Taiwanese pilot planned to defect to mainland China with US-made army helicopter, court told | Island army officer agreed to a Chinese offer to fly a CH-47 Chinook onto a PLA aircraft carrier, prosecutors say | Pilot was arrested for spying following US$15 million bribe to steal helicopter, indictment says | December 11, 2023:

"A Taiwanese army pilot was offered US$15 million to defect by landing an US-made transport helicopter on a People’s Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier during a military drill near the island, according to prosecutors.

But the scheme fell through after the officer was arrested in August for allegedly spying for Beijing, a Taiwan court has heard.

The pilot, identified by his surname Hsieh, was approached in June by mainland Chinese intelligence officials through a retired Taiwanese army officer to fly the CH-47 Chinook helicopter onto the aircraft carrier, the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors Office said in an indictment revealed by lawmakers on Monday."

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