A total of 482 people suspected of being involved in a major transnational telecom scam were seized by law enforcement officials from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan on Wednesday with the help of police in six countries.
…”The group mainly squeezed money from individuals or companies by calling them in the name of police or procuratorate staff and threatening to accuse them of money-laundering crimes,” said Liu Ancheng, deputy director of the ministry’s Criminal Investigation Bureau.
They asked the victims to transfer money into the group’s accounts and then told their accomplices in Taiwan and Thailand to withdraw the money from local ATMs, said Liu.
Liu noted that the Taiwanese suspects comprised the majority of the group, distinguishing this from most cases that occur in the mainland.
“Ringleaders from Taiwan were deterred by mainland police’s stern crackdown on telecom scams, so they recruited locals in Taiwan to commit this crime,” Liu said.
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