Prosecutors request permission to detain 3 ATM heist suspects

Focus Taiwan
Date; 2016/07/18
By: Yu Kai-hsiang, Lu Hsin-hui and S.C. Chang

Taipei, July 18 (CNA) Taipei District prosecutors on Monday filed a motion with a local court to detain three East European suspects involved in an automatic teller machine theft of more than NT$83 million (US$2.6 million).

After four hours of questioning, the prosecutors said they were seeking the detention of Latvian Andrejs Peregudovs on charges of fraud and offenses against computer security.

Two others arrested a day earlier — Romanian Mihail Colibaba and Moldovan Niklae Penkov — were also charged with fraud and offenses against computer security.

All three should be detained out of concern they will flee the country and collude in destroying evidence related to their roles in the international computer fraud ring, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office argued.     [FULL  STORY]