Taipei Times
Date: May 10, 2019
By: Chiu Chun-fu and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Criminal Investigation Bureau’s 7th Investigation Corps on Wednesday said it had
Mobile phones, computers and advertising documents used for a fraud scheme and seized by the Criminal Investigation Bureau are displayed at the bureau’s offices in Taipei on Wednesday.Photo: Chiu Chun-fu, Taipei Times
arrested a couple suspected of operating a scheme that defrauded people of more than NT$20 million (US$646,078).
Police said that they on Jan. 30 arrested the couple — a man surnamed Liu (劉) and a woman surnamed Peng (彭) — as well as 14 other people linked to the scheme.
The man had been using the nicknames “doctor” and “universe,” and the woman went by the name Anna, they said.
They claimed to be responsible for a company called Pei Tou Information Technology Group, and targeted retired people and housewives over the age of 50, police said. [FULL STORY]