Most of the group’s financiers had already returned to Taiwan
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/07/06
By: Matthew Strong,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Friday it had nabbed
A CIB official explains the crackdown on a fraud ring based in the Dominican Republic. (By Central News Agency)
more than 70 people suspected of involvement in a fraud ring based in the Dominican Republic.
One of the suspects arrested was seen as the mastermind of the whole international operation, the Central News Agency reported.
Having identified the fact that a Taiwanese citizen traveled to the Dominican Republic to set up an electronic fraud operation, the police forces of both countries cooperated to fight the ring. A raid on its headquarters last September netted four Taiwanese and one Dominican citizen.
However, most of the organization’s key figures had already left the Caribbean country by then to return to Taiwan, the CIB said. [FULL STORY]
