2021/05/11 12:00 20 suspects being escorted by CIB officers. 20 suspects being escorted by CIB officers. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A group of Philippine migrant workers has been arrested for defrauding over 20 victims in Taiwan out of approximately NT$10 million (US$359,000). During a press conference on Monday (May 11), the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) announced that a 35-year-old Filipino migrant worker identified as Eda and 19 other suspects from the Philippines had allegedly served as money mules as part of an internet fraud ring. The CIB stated that the suspects had been arrested in raids carried out in Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Keelung, and Miaoli on Jan. 18, March 22, and April 19.
Prosecutors charge man with storming police station
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Taipei prosecutors yesterday charged one suspect with damaging public property at a police station, but did not pursue charges against the station’s former chief, who was accused of covering up an incident in which a group stormed into the building.
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office charged a man surnamed Hsu (徐) over the destruction of a computer at the Zhonglun Police Station in Songshan Precinct after he allegedly entered the station early on April 16 with nine other people.
The group earlier had a dispute with police officer Yang Chung-li (楊忠蒞), a physical skills instructor, who entered the station to get away from them, but the group followed him into the building at about 2am.
Law and Order: One detained, three freed on bail in cockroach attack
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The chief suspect in an attack on a Taipei restaurant involving the release of 1,000 live cockroaches was detained and held incommunicado yesterday, while bail was set at NT$50,000 each for his three alleged accomplices.
The Taipei District Court granted prosecutors’ request to detain the 26-year-old chief suspect, surnamed Wu (吳), but declined requests to detain his co-suspects, surnamed Tsao (曹), Hsu (許) and Tsai (蔡), who are in their early 20s.
The four men, who were arrested on Tuesday during raids in Taipei and New Taipei City, along with a female minor who was later released, said they had been hired to “persuade” the owner of the restaurant to settle a debt with an unidentified creditor.
Police vow arrests after Taipei cockroach incident
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A debt dispute between a restaurant owner and a criminal ring might be behind a bizarre cockroach attack at the Taipei eatery on Monday night while it was hosting a police gathering, Taipei Police Commissioner Chen Jia-chang (陳嘉昌) said yesterday.
Preliminary findings of a police investigation into the case at the G House Taipei suggest that the unusual incident might have been directed at the restaurant’s owner, who allegedly owes money to the Bamboo Union, Chen said.
The suspects were Bamboo Union members and there was no evidence indicating that the cockroaches were targeted at the police officers at the restaurant, he said.
The Taipei Police Department at a news conference yesterday revealed recovered surveillance footage from Songshan Precinct’s Zhonglun Police Station that was allegedly deleted by the station’s former director.
At about 2am on April 16, a group of 10 people stormed into the station as they pursued precinct physical training instructor Yang Chung-li (楊忠蒞) following an argument, and allegedly damaged a computer at the station.
Surveillance footage from the incident had been missing, and former station director Hsu Shu-huan (許書桓) who was removed from the post on Thursday had previously said he deleted it by accident.
At yesterday’s news conference,