Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-18
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The ATM cash theft prime suspect, Peregudovs Andrejs, asked police on Sunday whether he 
would be sentenced to death after he was nabbed by police in Yilan County on the same day.
Latvian national Andrejs was suspected of putting away NT$60 million he and other suspects stole from 41 First Bank ATMs in Taipei and Taichung on July 9 and 10 in a locker at the Taipei Main Station on July 13. Andrejs left Taipei for Yilan after storing the money.
Two Romanian males suspected of moving the cash from the locker to the hotel room they stayed were also captured by police on Sunday.
Andrejs was having a meal at a local restaurant when Taipei City police officer Soong Chun-liang, spotted him and suspected that he was the ATM cash theft prime suspect because he looked like Andrejs in the photos police released through media. Soong compared the foreigner with the photos in his cell phone, and immediately decided to tip off local police about the man, leading to his capture. [FULL STORY]
