Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/10/17
By: Wu Jui-chi and William Yen
Taipei, Oct. 17 (CNA) Five foreign suspects involved with a cross-border human
Photo courtesy of National Immigration Agency Border Affairs Corps
trafficking syndicate have been arrested by the National Immigration Agency (NIA) while attempting to board flights at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Oct. 11, according to the agency Wednesday.
After being informed by airline ground staff, the NIA’s Border Affairs Corps (BAC) raised suspicions that a woman planning to travel to Paris might have carried an altered Albanian passport.
When the woman’s passport was later confirmed by immigration officials to have undergone alteration, searches were expanded and two other Albanian passport holders, preparing to fly to Frankfurt and Vienna were also found to have altered passports.
The three Albanian passport holders claimed that they don’t know each other but in order to reunite with their families in Europe and for a chance to earn higher wages, they each spent 4,000 Euros (US$4,612) to pay for the services of the same human trafficking syndicate, the BAC said. [FULL STORY]