Gangster was serving life sentence for bank robberies and kidnapping, once fled to China
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/08/17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Hsueh Chiu (center). (By Central News Agency)
Details of the disease the 53-year-old died of were not made public by the Tainan Penitentiary, the Central News Agency reported.
The Hsinchu County native had already served time when he became involved in a shootout with police at a KTV in Miaoli County in 2001. He was released because he admitted, but just months later, he and an associate abducted a former deputy speaker of the Taichung City Council.
Instead of the NT$300 million (US$9.57 million) they had demanded, they received NT$30 million and fled to China. [FULL STORY]