With the Help of Powerful E-Detective Provided by Decision Group
Recently Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) has begun to return home country 471 Taiwanese nationals nabbed when law enforcement agencies broke up a crime ring that operated in Taiwan, China and other countries in the Far Eastern and ASEAN region.
The first 122 suspects were flown back to Taiwan from Macau, China on Saturday, June 11 while another 101 were flown back from Indonesia on Tuesday, June 14 . They were among 1,200 persons busted at 161 hideouts in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, the Taiwan CIB said in a press statement. These crime dens doubled as money laundering sites and call centers from which scam telephone calls were made, the CIB said.
More than 800 Taiwanese officers were mobilized for the operation, codenamed 0301.
The breakthrough was the result of a close, joint operation between Taiwan, China and several Southeast Asian countries. The operation marked the first time that law enforcement officers from Taiwan and China have simultaneously collaborated with their Southeast Asian counterparts in a cross-border crime-fighting operation.
It was also the first Taiwan-China joint police action in other countries since an agreement between the Taiwan and China on crime-fighting and judicial cooperation was signed in April 2009. The operation had dealt a heavy blow to the fraud rings and should help reduce fraud cases and scams in Taiwan. The cooperation between the seven countries has been a result of the frequent exchanges between their law enforcement agencies, said the CIB release.
The suspected fraudsters were returned to Taiwan on chartered flights operated by commercial airlines, one of which had an all male-crew.
2 months ago Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) worked with police in mainland China and Vietnam to bust several cross-border fraud rings in Vietnam, 61 Taiwanese suspects arrested. The three parties cooperated and raided an industrial zone at Binh Duong province in the southeastern part of the country on April 21, and arrested six Taiwanese nationals and 14 mainland Chinese accomplices. The six Taiwanese suspects were repatriated April 28 and turned over to the Taichung District Prosecutors Office.
In another operation on May 13 and 14, Vietnamese police raided eight locations at Ho Chi Minh City, its largest city, and arrested another 55 Taiwanese suspects, and 19 mainland Chinese suspects. The CIB sent agents to escort the 55 Taiwanese suspects back to Taiwan 3 days later.
Taiwan CIB officials said the fraudsters would frequently disguise themselves as police or prosecutors and call their victims to ask them to pay money under the pretext that they had not yet paid their credit card bills. The recent crackdown was a follow-up of a cross-strait joint effort to bust fraudsters last year.
Behind these cases, there is always Decision Group E-Detective, which helps police to target fraudsters, track their activities, and keep all criminal evidence, in Taiwan, China and other ASEAN countries.
“From view point of investigation procedure, police from Taiwan and China worked hard to locate suspect, track their route, study scam model, and collect evidence day and night for the past six months.” said Casper Chang, “We are also happy that our E-Detective really helps police a lot to make our society more secured from such fraud crime.”
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