The Bamboo Union (Chinese: 竹 聯 幫; Pinyin: Zhūliánbāng) - the largest of the criminal gangs operating in Taiwan (about 10 thousand members) [1] .
Group Activities
United Bamboo operates not only throughout Asia and the Pacific , but also in Europe , North and South America . The main activities of the group are gambling , debt collection and contract killings .
United Bamboo has a complex horizontal hierarchy . According to some reports, the number of groups is about 10,000 people [2] . The united Bamboo has close ties with the Kuomintang party , which can be motivated by both political ideology and the desire for profit. The leaders of the group of communications with Taiwan politicians themselves deny. The group became world famous when it became involved in politics in the early 1980s. Alleged boss Chen Chi-Li and his associates Tang Gui-Sen and Wu Tong killed writer Henry Liu in California in 1984. Chen was arrested in Taiwan, convicted, but seven years later his sentence was changed, after which he fled to Cambodia , where he remained to live until his death.