Taiwan News, 21 Nov 2008
Five Taiwanese con artists have been arrested after law enforcement authorities from Taiwan and Singapore worked together to crack down on a cross-border gang of fraudsters that had members in China and Taiwan.
According to the Criminal Investigation Bureau's (CIB) Foreign Affairs Squad, the squad, with the assistance of legal experts from Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) , arrested a crime ring of five people in Taiwan Tuesday on charges of fraud.
The gang, whose ringleader is a man surnamed Hu, was part of a cross-strait fraudulent operation which used the fake name of the Hong Kong China Trust Group. Group members made long-distance calls to con money from innocent people by telling them they have won large prizes in raffle drawings, according to the squad.
The group hired mainland Chinese people to make phone calls from China to residents in Singapore, telling them that they were winners in a raffle and were entitled to receive prize money of 60,000 Hong Kong dollars (US$7,690).
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