Taipei Detention Center holds more than 30 suspects in separate coronavirus quarantine cells
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/02/29
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Feb. 28 (CNA photo)
He was put into coronavirus quarantine. It is unknown whether the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak played a part in his decision to leave the communist country as investigators did not question him about his motives for returning, CNA reported.
The man, an IT engineer named Chang (張), had started in 2000 to hack into other people’s accounts and to use their data to play the stock market. In the process, he made illegal profits totaling NT$42,500 (US$1,400) until he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison in 2006.
However, Chang did not appear at the prosecutors’ office to start his jail term, leading to an international arrest warrant the following year. On Friday, a friend notified police that Chang had decided to give himself up. [FULL STORY]
