ROUNDUP: Police have arrested three Four Seas Gang members, 22 members of the Bamboo Union and 17 from the Heavenly Way Alliance, along with 15 wanted criminals
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 15, 2018
By: Jason Pan, Huang Chieh and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) and police have arrested at least 100
Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau agents escort Chinese Democratic Progressive Party Taipei City councilor candidate Zhang Xiuye, center, to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday. Photo: Huang Chieh, Taipei Times
suspected gangsters in a nationwide crackdown, with the bureau touting the result as “boding well” for public security and curtailing criminal elements’ involvement in vote-buying, violence and social disturbances in the run-up to the elections on Saturday next week.
Among the targets were members of three major organized crime syndicates: the Bamboo Union, the Heavenly Way Alliance and the Four Seas Gang, CIB 4th Investigation Corp Deputy Chief Wang Chih-cheng (王志成) said.
One major figure under arrest was a 35-year-old man surnamed Tsai (蔡), reputedly head of a Four Seas Gang chapter in New Taipei City, who allegedly used violence to collect debts, and was at the center of several disputes over money and control of territory.
“Tsai’s arrest helps to halt violence and public disturbances, while illegal firearms, bullets, knives, cash and checks have been seized. This is part of efforts to prevent organized crime syndicates from interfering in the nine-in-one elections,” Wang said.
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