Lin Dewang, chairman of the Taiwan People's Communist Party, and vice chairman Zheng Jianxin were suspected of receiving funding from mainland China to engage in election activities and bribing voters by importing COVID-19 self-testing kits from mainland China during the pandemic, violating the Anti-infiltration Act and the Election and Recall Act for Public Officials. On the 9th, the Taipei District Court acquitted all three individuals.
The prosecution accused Lin Dewang of instructing Zheng Jianxin to run for Taipei City Council in March 2022. In May of the same year, the two, along with another man named Yu Shenghong, conspired to provide at least 47 avatar accounts and recipient addresses by Zheng and Yu to import 4,700 antigen test kits from Xiamen Bautai Company in mainland China. Since the test kits were funded by Li Zhonghui, director of the Taiwan Office Service Center in Fujian Province, they could be directly mailed to each avatar account's recipient address, circumventing the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Food and Drug Administration regulation requiring special approval for importing more than 100 antigen test kits from mainland China.
Lin Dewang once served as a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Kuomintang and a representative for Taiwan businessmen in mainland China in the 18th and 19th sessions. Since 2007, he has been doing business in Shanghai and Yunnan Province in mainland China. He was expelled from the Kuomintang in 2016 and founded the Taiwan People's Communist Party the following year, becoming its chairman.