Couple indicted over NT$5.16bn Indonesia remittance schemeStaff writer, with CNAA Taiwanese labor broker and his Indonesian wife have been indicted for allegedly running an underground Taiwan-Indonesia remittance service for more than a decade, handling more than NT$5.16 billion (US$163 million) in transfers and earning at least NT$26.66 million in fees. Chuang partnered with multiple Southeast Asian grocery stores in Taiwan that were unaware of the scheme to solicit customers who wanted to remit money to Indonesia, prosecutors said. After receiving the deposits, Huang would use online banking to transfer the equivalent amount in rupiah to recipients in Indonesia from her account at Bank Central Asia, a private Indonesian bank, prosecutors said. From 2020, the operation switched to using an account opened under the name of one of Chuang's companies at Bank Rakyat Indonesia, they said. The grocery stores, in turn, passed on most of the profits — NT$80 per regular transfer and NT$120 per express transfer — to Chuang's companies, it said.

Source: Taipei Times January 13, 2026 11:23 UTC