Taiwan News
Date: 2017/05/12
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Two Taiwanese were nabbed in Thailand for involving in a telecommunications fraud scam targeting people in China, police said Friday.

The two suspects, identified by their surnames of Cheng and Chou, are expected to be deported back to Taiwan soon, police said.

Six Chinese nationals and a Thai national were also arrested in the raid conducted jointly by Taiwanese and Thai police in Bangkok on May 9, according to the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB).

An investigation found that the fraud ring, led by a Taiwanese man surnamed Liang, has had bases in various Southeast Asian countries and began operating in Thailand in March this year, the bureau said.    [FULL  STORY]