Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/18
By: Yu Kai-hsiang and Kay Liu
Taipei, July 18 (CNA) A police officer was honored Monday for spotting a key suspect later
Premier Lin Chuan (left) and police officer Sung Chun-liang.
arrested for a recent bank theft of over NT$83 million (US$2.60 million), when he was off duty on a family trip a day earlier.
Sung Chun-liang (宋俊良), an officer at the Taipei City Police Department’s Public Relations Office, received the honor along with his colleagues from Yilan County, who made the arrest, at the National Police Agency from Premier Lin Chuan (林全).
Sung alerted the Dong’ao police station in Yilan after he noticed a foreign national that fit the description of Andrejs Peregudovs in a restaurant across the road, where the officer was having a meal with his family Sunday.
Peregudovs, a Latvian national, was suspected of being one of the 10 plus members of a criminal ring that allegedly took NT$83.27 million in cash from hacked automatic teller machines (ATMs) at First Banks’ branches in Greater Taipei and Taichung July 9 and 10. [FULL STORY]
