Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/17
By: Liu Chien-pang and Emerson Lim
Chang Chao-hsiung (張詔雄), an officer of the CIB’s International Criminal Affairs Division / CNA file photo
Taipei, April 17 (CNA) An international telecom fraud ring was busted in a cross-border operation that resulted in the arrest of more than 60 suspects, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) announced Wednesday.
The ring was busted through cooperation among police in Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, Chang Chao-hsiung (張詔雄), an officer of the CIB’s International Criminal Affairs Division, said in a press conference.
According to Chang, the CIB, in collaboration with the Royal Thai Police, the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Bureau of Immigration, raided a telecom fraud operation in Metro Manila in June last year and apprehended three Taiwanese and 16 Thais. [FULL STORY]
