Cop confesses to taking NT$10 million bribe to cover up 1.5-ton drug load smuggled from Vietnam

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/14
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After the discovery of the biggest drug cache inside a container in Taiwanese history, a police officer has confessed that he took NT$10 million (US$326,000) in bribes to cover it up.

Earlier this year, Kaohsiung's Ciaotou District Prosecutor's Office directed the seizure of 1.5 metric tons of illegal drugs stashed inside a container, which, in turn, led to the arrest of a police officer surnamed Wu (吳), who had taken bribes to look the other way. Prosecutors found that Wu, an officer with the Special Police Third Headquarters, imported containers under the name of a company with a good track record in exchange for NT$10 million, reported UDN.

On Jan. 28 of this year, officers opened up a container in Kaohsiung Harbor and found 1.5 tons of illegal drugs inside, a record haul from a container in Taiwan. The authorities traced the shipment to a 48-year-old customs broker surnamed Shen (沈), who informed them that a police officer surnamed Wu had been helping to cover up the shipments, according to the report.

When police took Wu in for questioning, he confessed that he had helped smuggle illegal drugs on two occasions. Prosecutors said that a 45-year-old man surnamed Lin (林), a man surnamed Chen (陳), and Wu were part of a drug-smuggling ring.    [FULL  STORY]