Friday 25 March 2011

650 Taiwanese nationals have been arrested in South Korea and Thailand for alleged involvement in telecommunication fraud cases

650 Taiwanese nationals have been arrested in South Korea and Thailand for alleged involvement in telecommunication fraud cases since September 2006, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.

The suspects, 439 in South Korea and 235 in Thailand, were mostly recruited by fraud rings with bases there to open bank accounts or collect money from the victims, the ministry said.

The telecommunications fraud rings, once very active in Taiwan and China, have recently relocated to South Korea and countries in Southeast Asia after Taiwan and China forged an agreement in 2009 to jointly crack down on cross-Taiwan Strait crime, according to police sources.

One of the fraud cases involving Taiwanese nationals even trigged a diplomatic row between Taiwan and the Philippines after Manila deported 14 Taiwanese suspects to China Feb. 2.

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