Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/29
By: Liu Chien-pang and Lee Hsin-Yin
Taipei, Dec. 29 (CNA) Sixteen Vietnamese nationals were arrested along with three
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Taiwanese in central Taiwan earlier this week on suspicion of telecommunications fraud that targeted people in Vietnam, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Friday.
Fourteen of the Vietnamese suspects are runaway immigrant workers and two are fake tourists who strayed from their tour groups, the CIB said.
It was also the first cross-border fraud case that involved runaway Vietnamese workers in Taiwan, according to the CIB.
In a raid carried out on Dec. 26, law enforcement officers seized computers, mobile phones, victims’ information and other items at two locations in Taiping and Shalu districts in Taichung City, which appeared to have been the base of the operations, the CIB said. [FULL STORY]
