Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/23
By: Liu Chien-pang and William Yen
Taipei, March 23 (CNA) Authorities in Taiwan have arrested over 400 fraud suspects in a
Interior Minister Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮, front left)
four-day sweep, including some involved in an unprecedented case, a Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) official said Friday.
A total of 418 alleged cash mules were arrested, with NT$34 million (US$1.17 million) and eight cars seized, CIB Commissioner Tsai Tsan-po (蔡蒼柏) said at a National Police Agency press conference held Friday.
Multiple fraud cases have been cracked, including the first case of Taiwanese fraudsters deceiving Chinese people in the United States by pretending to be authorities from China, Tsai said.
Tsai said the central government has been actively combating fraud by concentrating their efforts on cash mules, and 201 cash mules were arrested during a sweep at the end of last year before a second wave of operations were carried out from March 19 to 22 this year. [FULL STORY]