Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/29
By: Huang Li-yun and Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Oct. 29 (CNA) A Chinese couple travelled to Taiwan recently to appear in

Liu (third right) and Li (second left) thank Hsu (second right). Photo courtesy of Criminal Investigation Bureau

court as witnesses in the trial of the suspected ringleader of a fraud syndicate that swindled 229,000 Chinese yuan (US$34,686) from them in 2013, Criminal Investigation Bureau said in a press release Sunday.

After Liu Zhigang (劉志剛) and his wife Li Suzhen (李素珍) from Jiangsu province arrived in Taiwan last week, they wasted no time getting to the bureau to express their thanks to Hsu Yung-yi (許永益), the officer whom they have been in contact with over the case in the past four years but never met.

Li received a call from the telecom fraud ring on March 28, 2013 in which she was told that she was being investigated by the police over her alleged involvement in money laundering and was asked to transfer the money to a bank account that turned out to be one of the scammers’ accounts.    [FULL  STORY]