Malaysia deports fraud suspects to China
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MALAYSIAN police have repatriated 97 telecom fraud suspects to China.
The group, which includes 32 people from Taiwan, arrived shackled and wearing black hoods at an airport in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, on Saturday night.
In March, Malaysian and Chinese mainland police cooperated on an investigation into five transnational telecommunications fraud cases involving victims from across the mainland, and arrested 117 Chinese suspects — 65 from the mainland and 52 from Taiwan.
Among the 52 from Taiwan, 20 were transferred to Taiwan authorities on April 15.
The Chinese government asked Malaysia to transfer the rest of the suspects to the mainland as all the victims of the fraud are from there.
The mainland has invited Taiwan police to cooperate in handling the case, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
In recent years, syndicates led by Taiwan suspects and based in southeast Asia, Africa and Oceania have cheated money from people on the Chinese mainland through telephone calls by pretending to be law enforcement officers.
Kenyan police also deported 77 suspected telecom scammers in another two fraud syndicates, including 45 from Taiwan, to the Chinese mainland in April.
In one case cited by the Ministry of Public Security, a person surnamed Yang from Duyun, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, was cheated out of 117 million yuan (US$18.1 million) in December 2015.
Victims included migrant workers, teachers, students and elderly people, some of whom committed suicide after being cheated of a large sum of money, the ministry said.
Following Saturday’s repatriation, An Fengshan, a spokesman for the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office, “strongly required” Taiwan authorities to strengthen a crackdown on telecom scams and ensure harsh penalties for such crimes.
In recent years, police from the mainland and Taiwan have arrested more than 7,700 suspects in joint maneuvers. However, in some cases handled by Taiwan’s judicial organs, Taiwan-based suspects were not brought to justice and their victims were unable to retrieve their money, according to An.
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