Taipei Times
Date: Jan 05, 2018
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The Criminal Investigation Bureau yesterday said it has arrested a fraud ring in southern Taiwan that it said swindled more than NT$10 million (US$337,952) from women in Hong Kong and China seeking love and marriage.

Bureau officials said they first received reports from victims in August last year and set up a surveillance operation after investigators found that the ring was based at two locations in Chiayi County’s Taibao City (太保).

The two locations were raided on Wednesday in an operation coordinated by Chiayi prosecutors, who were armed with search warrants, and with support from the bureau, the Chiayi County Police Department and military police units, the officials said, adding that six men and one woman in their 20s and 30s were arrested and taken in for questioning by prosecutors.

“We believe the ringleader is Chen Meng-nan (陳孟男), who is 36 and has previously been convicted of offenses against public safety and fraud,” bureau International Criminal Affairs Division 1st Investigation Corps deputy chief Yang Kuo-sung (楊國松) said. “We are looking to file charges of fraud and related offenses.”    [FULL  STORY]