Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/03/08
By: Angie Chen and Emerson Lim

Photo courtesy of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Manila

Taipei, March 8 (CNA) Two Taiwanese nationals apprehended last October for alleged telecom fraud were deported to China by the Philippine authorities Friday, the third incident of the kind within a year.

Philippine immigration officers escorted the two Taiwanese and a Chinese onto a commercial flight to Beijing, all three of whom are alleged to be members of a telecom fraud ring.

Officials from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Manila expressed grave concern over the deportations.

The two Taiwanese citizens were among a group of 13 Taiwanese and 12 Chinese arrested by Philippine law enforcement officers last October.    [FULL  STORY]