Asia One
Date: Jan 26, 2018
By: AFP
TAIPEI – Nearly one hundred Taiwanese suspected of running telephone scams have
PHOTO: The New Paper
been arrested in Slovenia and Croatia, Taiwan said on Thursday (Jan 25), the latest fraud bust involving the island’s citizens.
Taiwanese crime rings around the world have for years swindled billions of dollars through the scams, with many of the victims Chinese.
The arrests are likely to heighten cross-strait tensions as Beijing insists that all arrested Taiwanese fraudsters be deported to China.
It came after Poland last week said it had arrested 48 Taiwanese and two Poles who extorted around €1.8 million (S$2.9 million) in a year from Chinese nationals by pretending to be from the local police on the phone. [FULL STORY]
