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Largest-ever gun smuggling operation busted on fishing boat
Police arrested six and seized over 180 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition smuggled into Kaohsiung from the Philippines in the largest gun bust in local history, authorities said yesterday.
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Friday seized 181 imported firearms and 22,685 cartridges aboard a fishing boat, officers were cited as saying.
The weapons included rarely seen briefcase submachine guns and dumdum bullets used only by special agents or professional assassins, said a Central News Agency (CNA) report.
One of the suspects arrested was a man, surnamed Ting, who is believed to be the mastermind behind the smuggling operation, the CIB said.
Ting had in the past allegedly supplied weapons to wanted gunmen in Taiwan, the CIB added.
Cross-strait efforts bust financial fraud ring
Law enforcement officials on both sides of the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday jointly clamped down on a group of 33 financial fraudsters that was targeting citizens of China and Taiwan, said the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB).
The crime ring leader, surnamed Chuang, was captured in Sichuan Province in China. He recruited students, soldiers and drug-addicts to impersonate law enforcers or government officials. The victims were called up and told they were involved in money laundering and their bank accounts would be seized.
To enhance the credibility in their fraudulent calls, the fraudsters even added "sound effects" by having extras pretend to be government officials scolding subordinates in the background to create an atmosphere of a real government office.
The ring was mainly based in Sichuan, where the leaders gave directions to fellows in Taiwan to retrieve the money.
The CIB in Taiwan arrested a suspect several months ago and found the guy involved in a fraudster ring in China. The officials informed the Chinese law enforcement and jointly weeded out the ring on both sides.
Police officials have seized several fraud groups that target Chinese citizens since the authorities in Taiwan and China agreed in June to cooperate in fighting financial fraud.
CIB arrests 3 for selling bug devices.
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) turned over three suspects to prosecutors yesterday for their allegedly marketing illegal bug devices.
The bureau arrested the three men surnamed Lee, Lin, and Chen after confiscating 197 sets of cutting-edge bugging instruments imported mostly from China.
The three admitted that they had been selling the instruments in their high-tech gadget stores located in Taipei City and adjacent Taipei County as well as through auction stores on the Internet.
The highly sensitive devices were in various forms like wristwatches, cigarette lighters, ballpoint pens, or buttons.
They can be easily installed and concealed on electrical household appliances, handbags, fire and smoke detectors inside buildings, emergency lights, and remote control toy cars.
In spite of their miniature sizes, the devices had highly sensitive and powerful functions including eavesdropping, making videorecordings, and recording voices and images.
The bugging devices are also capable of instant wireless transmission of the data such as voices and images without the knowledge of the victims, said agents of the CIB under the National Police Agency (NPA)
The three suspects were turned over to the Taipei and Banqiao prosecutors office for further investigation.
11 arrested for posing as public prosecutors
Eleven suspects were rounded up in Taoyuan yesterday for posing as public prosecutors to cheat victims out of their money, a Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) spokesman said yesterday.
Their identification was withheld.They visited victims, telling them their bank accounts were being closed because they were under investigation, the CIB spokesman said.
The victims were then told to go to their banks to withdraw all the money they had deposited. The money was then given to the impostors for "safe-keeping."
Those who hesitated to make the withdrawal were threatened with arrest, the CIB official said.
All 11 were arraigned before Taoyuan district prosecutors in the afternoon. They were charged with forgery, fraud, and impersonation as public functionaries.
Illiterate woman scams 30 people of NT$140 mill.
An illiterate woman has been arrested in central Taiwan for allegedly scamming 30 people out of NT$140 million by claiming to have access to an old woman's fortune, reported the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday.
The supsect, Lin Hai-yen, 56, promised those who helped foot the inheritance tax for the old woman's fortune that they would be repaid twice as much, CIB said.
According to the CIB, Lin and four other accomplices have been allegedly conning people, mostly those within the Buddhist community in Miaoli City, for the past six years.
Recruiting a 96-year-old woman from a nursing home, Lin told the Buddhist followers that the woman had a fortune of NT$900 million and her daughter, who was the heir apparent and a friend of Lin's, was struggling to pay the inheritance tax.
She claimed that whoever paid the greatest amount of inheritance tax would become the "God-grandson" or "God-granddaughter" to the old lady.
When officers arrested Lin and the others, they uncovered from their homes numerous cell phones and piles of paper documenting credit card transfers and billing information.
The overall money totalled approximately NT$140 million, CIB said.
Although Lin is known to be illiterate, she was able to put her persuasive talking skills and cunning into good use.
When people became suspicious of her alleged scam, Lin and her accomplices even impersonated law officers in order to intimidate them into giving more money, causing many to further go in debt.
Woman loses NT$1.8 mil. to fraud syndicate posing as luxury goods store
A woman was swindled out of NT$1.77 million by a fraud syndicate posing as a luxury goods store that was holding a raffle drawing, local media reported.
Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) recently received a report of fraud from a 60 year-old woman surnamed Chang. She said that she had received a call from someone who claimed to be from "Magic Luxury Goods" in Kaohsiung early in June.
Shortly after a VIP discount card and company brochures arrived in the mail, she was informed that she had won a crystal chandelier worth NT$1.2 million in a company drawing.
The impostors even provided a telephone number to an overseas bank for reference when they asked her to transfer handling fees and a cash deposit in order to receive the prize. The victim only realized that she had been swindled after paying NT$1.77 million, added the report.
Also in June, another woman surnamed Chao received an international call from a man who claimed he was the assistant manger of a lottery company recruiting members. The victim wired NT$1.4 million before realizing she was cheated.
The police said that criminals have technological capabilities to alter caller identification information and to reconnect any dialed number to their designated telephone lines. Before making any payments, check with the fraud hotline 165, police reminded the public.
(June 24, 2009)Suspects in Jilin shooting repatriated from Macau: CIB
The China Post news staff
Two men surnamed Chen and Lau suspected to be involved in the Jilin tea house shooting in 2000 were repatriated and escorted back to Taiwan by the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) from Macau yesterday.
The shooting occurred on August 16 that year, and the owner of the tea house, Fang Shih-hsiang, was shot dead. A member of the CIB, Lin Fu-lai, was shot three times but managed to survive. The incident shocked the public, and criminal gangs were suspected of being involved.
Chen and Lau fled to Zhuhai in mainland China, and were repatriated with the help of the mainland authorities under an agreement to crack down on crime on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The CIB believes that the capture of Chen and Lau will be a great boost in their efforts to solve the case.
(June 17, 2009)Rapists posing as policemen arrested
The China Post news staff
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday arrested a notorious duo of rapists that haunted northern Taiwan for the past three years.
The police tie the two suspects, Yen Yung-tai, 32, and Lu Peng-tien, 33, to seven reported cases of sexual assault, although they also believe that there are more victims that have remained silent. Out of the seven reported cases, three involved teenage girls, the youngest aged only fourteen at the time of the alleged assault.
The two were tracked down by the CIB through the use of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) samples. The police urged any victims who have stayed silent to come fo

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