Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-04-04
The Philippines has sent 78 Taiwanese nationals suspected of telecom fraud to China.
Busloads of Taiwanese fraud suspects are sent to Manila’s international airport late Tuesday for deportation to China. (Photo by CNA)
The 78 were part of a fraud ring whose members were arrested in the Philippines in January.
The decision to send the Taiwanese suspects to China late Tuesday has sparked a strong protest from the foreign ministry.
On Wednesday morning, the ministry said it had urged Manila to extradite the suspects to Taiwan. However, despite the work of Taiwan’s representative office in the Philippines, local authorities decided to send the suspects to China instead amid strong pressure from Beijing.
Beijing claims jurisdiction in such cases of international telecom fraud involving Taiwanese nationals on the grounds that their victims are Chinese citizens in China.
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