The United Bamboo Gang (Chinese: 竹聯幫; pinyin: Zhūliánbāng) is the largest of Taiwan's three main Triads. They are reported to have roughly 100,000 members. The membership consists largely of waishengren (Mainland Chinese) and has had historic ties to the Kuomintang; they are said to be motivated as much by political ideology as by profit. The gang gained global notoriety when it became directly involved in politics in the early 1980s; alleged mob boss and his accomplices Tung Kuei-sen and Wu Tun murdered writer Henry Liu in California in 1984. Chen Chi-li was arrested in Taiwan, tried, and convicted; however, his life sentence was commuted after seven years, at which point he fled to Cambodia, where he lived until his death. The incident was later portrayed in the 2009 American political thriller film Formosa Betrayed, produced by Will Tiao.
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Bamboo Union and Four Seas Gang and Heaven Way Alliance, saying "Taiwan's three main criminal organisations"
Boss (official and acting)
Rulers (unofficial)
Notable cases
In July 2009, Chinese Bamboo Union hitman Bai Xiao Ye stabbed and slashed a man to death in a Las Vegas, Nevada karaoke bar and wounded two others. In 2013, Bai was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Bai had also been charged with fatally shooting a man and wounding another at a Los Angeles karaoke bar.
Organization
Since the 1950s development, Bamboo Union organization has 80 branches, members and partner relations up to 100,000 people.
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