Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-23
By: Matthew Strong, 0Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan fell victim to its first-ever large-scale automatic teller machine theft over the July 10 weekend, when a group of mostly Eastern European nationals managed to take NT$83 million from the First Commercial Bank.

Police succeeded in solving the crime within a week, even though there was a strange twist at the end when it was found a local resident had taken some of the money home with him before alerting the authorities.

A total of three suspects were detained, Andrejs Peregudovs from Latvia, Mihail Colibaba from Romania and Nikolay Penkov from Moldova. All other 14 suspects left Taiwan before police could get hold of them.

The suspects who escaped the country have been identified as Victor Kharechko from Australia, Xander Tann from Estonia, Romanians Alexandru Arsenii, Vitalie Ursu, Igor Velicoglo, Ion Secrieru and Oleg Malic, Russians Sergey Berezovskiy, Evgenii Babii, Alexander Lvovskiy, Kano Adiian, Gaik Manukian, Vladimir Berkman and Oxana Sarkisova.     [FULL  STORY]