Blocking the case of fraudulent receipt of tens of millions of invoices, Penghu County Council commends meritorious personnel

Lin Jixing, deputy magistrate of Penghu County, announced that policeman Xiong Baobao was responsible for uncovering the case of fraudulently claiming tens of millions of invoices. (Provided by Penghu County Government)

The country's first case of fraudulently collecting tens of millions of invoices broke out in Penghu. The Penghu County Government held a county affairs meeting today (9th), chaired by Deputy County Magistrate Lin Jixing, to publicly commend those who had made a difference in stopping fraudulently collecting invoice bonuses. From the bank clerks who discovered the case on the front line to the policemen at the police station, investigation team, and criminal police brigade, they all received public awards and commendations. They were grateful for protecting the hard-earned money of taxpayers for the country.

The Penghu case of fraudulently claiming tens of millions of invoices is the first criminal case in Taiwan’s judicial history in which “unreturned cloud invoices” were fabricated and altered on a large scale in an attempt to fraudulently claim a special prize worth tens of millions. The criminal group is suspected of leaking or cracking the billing information and invoice random code of the cloud invoice, and using the ibon machine of the supermarket to print out the real "winning paper invoice" and go to the financial institution to claim the prize. The whole case is currently under active investigation by the Penghu District Prosecutor's Office, and a total of four main suspects involved in the case have been detained and banned from public viewing.

In early October this year, two men surnamed Zhang embarked on a "prize redemption trip" in Penghu and successfully redeemed multiple small-value invoices from farmers' associations, credit unions and supermarkets, successfully redeeming a total of 199,600 yuan. The suspect then took out two special prize invoices worth up to 10 million yuan each and one invoice worth 200,000 yuan to redeem them at the counter. The staff discovered that the two million-million-dollar jackpots had not been issued in Penghu at all, and the other party looked strange and the designated remittance account requested had been listed as a "warning account." They were alarmed that there was a fraud and secretly notified the police to arrest him.

Today's list of recipients of commendations: First Bank Penghu Branch Manager Chen Suying, Deputy Manager Chen Xiuqing, Magong Police Branch Guangming Police Station Director Song Yuhong, Investigation Team Police Officer Zheng Yushao, and Criminal Police Brigade Investigation Assistant Xu Jiahua, for preventing unscrupulous people from fraudulently claiming invoice bonuses on October 13, demonstrating a good reporting mechanism of public-private cooperation.