Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/02
By: Liu Chien-pang, Hsiao Po-wen and Chung Yu-chen
Taipei, May 2 (CNA) Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) is seeking the
Alihammad Jomaah / Photo courtesy of Taiwan Shilin District Prosecutors Office
assistance of Interpol which it has asked, through Japan, to issue an arrest warrant for the arrest of Alihammad Jomaah, an Iraqi suspected of killing his Taiwanese wife’s parents in Taipei.
Jomaah left the country with his one-year-old son Tuesday on a flight bound for Japan, authorities said Wednesday. As a result, the police have asked law enforcement in Japan to help track down the 31-year-old Iraqi man.
However, Taiwan is not a member of Interpol and has no extradition treaty or mutual judicial assistance pact with Japan. As such, the assistance received is likely to be limited, the CIB said Thursday.
To locate Jomaah, Taiwanese law enforcement can only seek unofficial assistance from the Japanese police, according to the CIB. [FULL STORY]
