Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/13
By: Lin Chang-shun and William Yen

Taipei, April 13 (CNA) Members of a violent criminal ring that has been using narcotics to

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control unaccounted for migrant workers and using them as muscle to beat and intimidate its victims have been arrested in a recent operation, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) said Friday.

The NIA said that the ringleader, surnamed Huang (黃), manages a cleaning company in Taipei and along with two accomplices, surnamed Chen (陳) and Chang (張), used the unaccounted for Vietnamese migrant workers to beat and intimidate other cleaning business competitors into signing paperwork signifying that they owed money.

Huang also supplied narcotics such as amphetamines to his victims and repeatedly hosted drug-fueled parties in his office, often acting as the catalyst for his victims’ addictions and charging them for the drugs, the NIA discovered.    [FULL  STORY]