Foreign cash paid for a camera aimed at the door of Puma Shen, a DPP legislator and Taipei mayoral candidate known for warning about Chinese influence. Prosecutors just indicted four Taipei private investigators hired by two Hong Kong residents to watch him and his family. The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office charged the four under the Personal Data Protection Act. On September 5, 2024, the Hong Kong clients wired HK$99,950, about US$12,700, to investigator Cheng Yung-chin. After bodyguards blocked physical tailing, subcontractors hid a pinhole camera under a scooter seat outside Shen’s Da’an home. It streamed the entrance to Telegram from October 1 to November 8, 2024. Arrest warrants are out for both Hong Kong men, who have left Taiwan. Prosecutors called the money funding from an overseas hostile force for transnational repression. They have not publicly traced it to Beijing. The surveillance ran in 2024. The indictment landed as Shen campaigns for Taipei mayor. Foreign clients bought local agencies to film an elected official’s family at home, and so far face only privacy charges, not a national-security case.