Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/17
By: Yu Kai-hsiang and Kay Liu
Taipei, July 17 (CNA) Andrejs Peregudovs, a Latvian national, and two Romanians suspected to
Police arrest two Romanian nationals in a hotel in Taipei.
be involved in a recent automatic teller machine (ATM) heist of over NT$83 million (US$2.60 million), was captured in Yilan County and Taipei on Sunday, police said.
According to the Taipei City Police Department, Peregudovs was spotted in an eatery along the Provincial Highway No. 9 in the northeastern county by an off-duty policeman who happened to be in the area.
The Latvian, who was on a bicycle, was arrested by policemen called in from the Dong’ao police station across the road.
Peregudovs was wanted as a suspect involving in a criminal ring of over 10 members that stole $83.27 million from 41 hacked ATMs at several branches of First Bank in Taipei and Taichung on July 9 and 10. [FULL STORY]
