Peng Sheng-chu () is a Taiwanese politician and retired general of the

Republic of China Air Force The Republic of China Air Force ( Chinese, 中華民國空軍), or the ROCAF; known colloquially as the Taiwanese Air Force ( Chinese, 臺灣空軍) by Western or mainland Chinese media, or commonly referred as the National Military Air Force ...

(ROCAF). He is the Director-General of the National Security Bureau since 26 October 2016.

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Peng was once the chief bodyguard of President

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. In June 2005, he became the head of Military Intelligence Bureau. In 2009, he was appointed as the strategic adviser for the Presidential Office. Being the first director general with the ROC Air Force background in both MIB and NSB history, Peng always behaved prudently, but lost the parliament members' confidence for being considered as arrogant to the parliament and unfamiliar with the intelligence works after failing to be present in several important legal hearings in the

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during his term, submitting the false intelligence report with out-of-date information being noticed and corrected by President

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in person, and being unable to answer common questions such as identifying the basic information of MSS, nevertheless he also neglected to correct the worsened long-term ethical corruption among subordinates in time until the discipline failures accumulated into more serious crime within the Secret Services were discovered, such as the security guard's sexual harassment case, sidearm discharge accident without following the

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properly, motel sex scandal, and multiple drinking violations while in duty for years... till the 2019 smuggling case of $200,000 Tax-free cigarettes in 9,800 packs (including 5 illegal orders of 9,200 packs with the Air Force One privilege, and 600 packs trafficking in person) being solved by the

Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB; zh, t=法務部調查局, p=Fǎwù Bù Diàochá Jú, poj=Hoat-bū-pō͘ Tiau-cha-kio̍k), is a Republic of China (Taiwan) agency responsible for criminal investigation and intelligence gatheri ...

. On 22 July 2019, Peng tendered his resignation due to the cigarette smuggling scandals.

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Living people 1950 births Political office-holders in the Republic of China on Taiwan Republic of China Air Force personnel {{Taiwan-mil-bio-stub

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