Thailand sends 13 fraud suspects back to Taiwan

Fraud ring focused on Taiwanese victims rather than Chinese

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/18
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Police detained 13 Taiwanese fraud suspects in a suburb of the Thai capital Bangkok and decided to deport them to Taiwan, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Wednesday (September 18).

In many past cases, countries without official diplomatic links to Taiwan deported Taiwanese suspects to China, especially if the victims were deemed Chinese.

However, in this case, the more than 30 victims who were defrauded of a total of NT$70 million (US$2.26 million) were all Taiwanese citizens, mostly elderly, the Central News Agency reported.

Members of the fraud ring posed as police officers, prosecutors or health insurance agents, reports said.    [FULL  STORY]