Taipei, June 11 (CNA) - A group of 122 Taiwanese fraud suspects were flown back to Taipei from Macau on a private EVA Airways flight early Saturday, marking the first time in Taiwan's crime-fighting history that a chartered plane was used to transport suspected criminals.
They were all arrested in Cambodia in a joint regional crime-fighting operation on Thursday, in which a total of 598 suspects, including 410 Taiwanese and 181 Chinese nationals, were nabbed.
The suspects were rounded up in Taiwan, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand for allegedly operating Internet and telephone scams mainly targeting Chinese and Taiwanese, according to the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB).
The bureau sent 60 detectives to escort the 122 fraud suspects back to Taiwan from Macau. The suspects arrived in Macau from Cambodia, along with 181 Chinese suspects, aboard a plane chartered by China.
After they arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, another 40 police officers were dispatched to escort them to the central city of Taichung for questioning.
Some CIB agents said the in-flight escort mission was reminiscent of the Hollywood action-thriller film "Con Air, " in which a newly released ex-con and former U.S. Ranger found himself trapped on a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seized control.
Police sources said the CIB would send another chartered plane to Indonesia in the next couple of days to fly back the 100 suspects arrested there in the June 9 operation.
It marked the first time that law enforcement officers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait simultaneously collaborated with their counterparts in Southeast Asian countries in a cross-border crime-fighting operation.
Taiwan alone mobilized more than 800 police officers to join the massive crackdown on telecom and Internet scams.
National Police Agency Director-General Wang Cho-chiun said Friday that the operation had dealt a heavy blow to the fraud rings and should help reduce fraud cases in Taiwan.
Moreover, he said, it was the first time that Taiwanese and mainland Chinese police had jointly investigated fraud cases in a third country.
"We believe the operation has set a new trend in joint crime-fighting," he added.
Taiwanese fraud rings have reportedly relocated to Southeast Asia since an agreement was singed two years ago between Taiwan and China to work more closely to bust such operations, police sources said.
(By Johnson Sun and Sofia Wu)
6 comments:
*ALL CHINeSES MAFIA will Revenge to H.S Govt soon.So that is a Good time for SE REI ROTHA now.Do CRAZY Activities like Thai yellow shirts now.
SATT MOR MEACH
Viet Youn are all over the Cambodia, why Khmer Authority kept silence. Chinese is the bone to Mr. Hun's throat. Viet are scared of Chinese (spy) so Viet forced Hun to capture them and deport them. Have a good time HUN.
DO ALL OF YOU BELIEVE ALL THAT TAIWANESE FRAUD?
Cambodia is no longer a free state,
it is a province of Vietnam.It is
a fake neutral kingdom of Cambodia.
Cambodians live in the dark hell,
they can't see the light of freedom.
They are so weak to get up to fight
against Hun Sen,6000,000 Vietnamese
immigrants,20,000 Vietnamese
soldiers,not including police
officers and Vietnamese spies.
The 2,000,000 Khmer abroad sleep
soundly in their beds.
Every weekend nights,they went to
dance at Night Club and drink with
their friends or hug and kiss
beautiful girls.How happy they are!
C'com ah Kwack dumbest ass motherfuckers let do something about illegals Viet in our country too fuckers.
I am tired of reading the same thing at all time when I turn on KI webpage, very emotional state of mind. Now tell me something such as What Khmer should do to stop Viet from crossing Khmer border? Is there any rules and regulation states in Khmer constitution for that? What is Khmer King duties in term of protecting Khmer, land and people?
We all need to know about that before we are stepping in, otherwise, we are barking dogs, not HUN.
Your king cannot allow Hun grabbing so much power in all of government branches. This will create Chaos. My suggestion this would work best for Khmer if HUN is only controlling the executive and King is controlling the Judicial branch. Every constition of the country can be amended due to the social, economical and political environment.....Share me with your openion on round table.
Joy Yak
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