A former Chinese security agent revealed on Thursday that over 2,000 Taiwanese businessmen in China are forced by the Chinese Communist Party to spy on Taiwan.

Invited by a group of Democratic Progressive Party legislators and reportedly motivated by his own conscience, Hao Fengjun, 32, spoke about the traps set up by the CCP to blackmail Taiwanese businessmen into becoming traitors.

Hao, who defected to Australia in February and received political asylum from the government in July, stressed he is putting his mother and his child's lives in jeopardy by publicly unveiling the CCP's schemes.

Hao revealed that, as an ex-agent of the 610 Office of the National Security Bureau, he was ordered to masquerade as a city councilman or secretary and win the confidence of Taiwanese businessman by overlooking crimes such as tax evasion, use of prostitutes, and adultery.

"Many of the entertainment venues such as nightclubs and bars are actually traps to frame the Taiwanese businessmen as they engage in sexual acts with prostitutes," said Hao.

Prostitution, and paying for sexual favors, is illegal in China and offenders are sent for re-education at labor-camps.

After the businessmen had been "caught," for various offenses, Hao would inform the police and when the businessmen had been arrested, they would call on "councilman" Hao for help to extricate them from their predicaments.

Hao would then persuade the businessmen to collect information on Taiwan, in particular, the activities of the Falun Gong religious group, in exchange for exoneration or a lighter penalty.

"Of course they are often reluctant at first to spy on their own country," said Hao. "So I coax them by saying, 'it's nothing big, just to gather some information on religious groups, not on any military secrets,'" Hao added.

The Taiwanese businessmen, utterly embarrassed and afraid of losing their families and investments, often relented to Hao's requests, he said.

Hao warned that, in the future, Taiwanese businessmen in China will have to learn to protect themselves if they are to avoid being sandbagged by similar ploys.

DPP Lawmaker Winston Dang said the Chinese government has an extensive database on all the Taiwanese businessmen residing in China. The secret police trace phone calls and follow the businessmen on a regular basis.

"In my opinion, although this espionage is forced into their situations, they should still be tried for treason if caught," Dang contended.

"Taiwanese businessmen have to be watchful and not be victimized by the communists," Dang added.

In an interview with Australia's Epoch times, Hao said he believed many of his colleagues in the 610 Office were disgusted and upset by the fabrications of the Chinese government and the way it has covered up human rights violations, such as the torture of Falun Gong practitioners.

"I think there must be many people like me," Hao said. "They are doing something thy really don't want to do."

The 610 Office is a Chinese security agency which was established to oversee the persecution of Falun Gong members and other religious sects.

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