Staff writer, with CNATwo Taiwanese wanted for their suspected involvement in cross-border telecom fraud were on Friday repatriated to Taiwan from the Philippines and Vietnam. In 2017, Huang, 34, allegedly led a 110-member fraud ring running a telecom scam in Latvia, where they were arrested and deported back to Taiwan that same year, the CIB said. Huang, who was sent to the Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office for further investigation, allegedly obtained about NT$150 million (US$4.97 million) in illegal profits through the telecom fraud operation, the CIB said. So far this year, 36 Taiwanese suspects have been deported back to Taiwan through cross-border cooperation that ended their fraudulent overseas activities, it said. Last month, 29 Taiwanese suspects involved in cross-border telecom fraud in Japan were repatriated to Taiwan pending an investigation after Japanese authorities in March tracked the suspects to a site in Yamanashi Prefecture’s Kofu City.
