The News Lens
Date: 2017/09/04
By: By Chris Horton, Taiwan Business TOPICS Magazine
Recent cases have revealed that telephone scamming involving Taiwanese swindlers
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is a big international business.
It’s a story that has become all too common.
On July 17, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Cambodia had arrested seven Taiwanese nationals after busting up a telecom fraud ring following a tip-off from China. A ministry spokeswoman said she hoped Cambodia would return the suspects to Taiwan, rather than sending them to China as it had done with 13 other Taiwanese suspects in 2016.
Taiwan’s government views the extradition of its citizens from third-party countries to China as a form of abduction, but has little leverage to prevent it from happening, especially in countries such as Cambodia that have diplomatic relations with Beijing, scant even unofficial ties with Taiwan, and are heavily dependent upon China for trade and investment. [FULL STORY]
