Man faces fraud charges in China passport swindleBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterThe Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Tuesday last week detained a man who allegedly cheated Taiwanese out of their passports as part of a China-based human smuggling operation. Lin had prior criminal convictions and was working with a international human-trafficking ring, based in China’s Fujian Province, Su said. The parcels containing the passports were traced to a temporary storage unit in a warehouse at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. With other Taiwanese suspects, Lin reportedly obtained the passports by defrauding the passport holders, Su said. Lin would face fraud charges for contravening legal provisions governing passport use, prosecutors said.

Source: Taipei Times March 15, 2020 15:56 UTC