Virus Outbreak: Bureau questions six over ‘mask hoarding’By Jason Pan / Staff reporterThe Criminal Investigation Bureau yesterday said it had arrested six people on suspicion of illegally stockpiling and selling medical masks made by a factory in central Taiwan. Bureau officials told a news briefing that they had seized 180,000 masks after raiding the factory and several warehouses on Friday last week. Boxes of confiscated masks are stacked up at the Taichung Criminal Investigation Bureau premises yesterday. Lai said that the bureau started its surveillance in late April after receiving reports that a company based in Taichung’s Wurih District (烏日) had been “stockpiling” masks. Agents also found more than 10,000 defective items and faulty masks returned from pharmacies, which Lai said were used to supplement the under-the-table mask production.

Source: Taipei Times June 04, 2020 15:56 UTC