The Ciaotou District Court has sentenced a coast guard official to six years
in prison for selling classified information to a Chinese national.

The court Kaohsiung court found the defendant guilty of committing
bribery-related offenses while she was working at the Southern Branch of
Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration in 2023.

Prosecutors say the suspect took photographs of classified documents stored
on a work computer relating to drill records and work reports.

She then sent them to a Chinese national in exchange for digital currency
worth more than 70,000 N-T.

According to prosecutors, the woman also made an agreement with the Chinese
national to collect restricted information relating to critical
infrastructure and defense plans for Taiwan's outlying islands in exchange
for 500,000 N-T.

The district court ruling can be appealed.