Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/04
By: Huang Li-yun and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Dec. 4 (CNA) Police in Taiwan and Singapore have jointly cracked a Taichung-based telecom fraud
Wu Dong-wen (吳東文)
ring that had swindled about NT$440 million (US$15 million) from 119 ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Sunday.
The fraud ring, led by a 30-year-old Taiwanese man surnamed Chen, targeted mainly Singaporeans, the bureau said at a press conference.
A total of six members were arrested for their suspected involvement in the scheme, in which they made phone calls from a telecom center in Taichung posing as Singaporean police and prosecutors to defraud victims, said CIB officer Wu Dong-wen (吳東文).
During a raid of the call center, police also seized seven mobile phones, tablets and wireless routers.
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