Changhua prosecutors uncovered the Tianjin fraud syndicate, arrested Liao Nan, Lin Nv and others, and found out that the group was involved in extorting four kilograms of gold. (provided by police)
Prosecutors indicted 20 people, Lin Peirong, the leader of the Tianjin fraud group, asked for 25 years in prison
The "Tianjin Fraud Group", headed by a man named Liao Yixuan and a woman named Lin Peirong, was suspected of setting up a computer room in Taiwan to defraud Chinese people across borders. It even planned a cross-border "fake kidnapping" case, tricking a Taiwanese student studying in Singapore with a Chinese surname to go to Vietnam to take selfies of being tied up, and then blackmailed his Taiwanese businessman father for four kilograms of gold, which was worth more than NT$16.67 million at the time. Changhua prosecutors solved the entire case and prosecuted 20 people. The prosecutors specifically requested the ringleader Lin Nu to be sentenced to 25 years in prison, which is still being tried by the court. The other ringleader Liao Nan has been sentenced to 16 years in prison by the Changhua District Court.
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Tianjin fraud group set up a cross-border scheme to deceive international students into going to Vietnam
The Changhua District Prosecutor's Office pointed out that the Yuanlin Branch of the Changhua County Police Station seized a foreign book collector in October last year. Prosecutors traced the source and found that a group with Liao Yixuan and Lin Peirong (both 30 years old) as the core set up two major fraud machine rooms in Taichung City, "Tiancheng" and "Jin Yunyao". They pretended to be Chinese police officers and defrauded Chinese people. They had obtained more than NT$10 million and had more than 50 victims. The group also cooperates with other fraud groups to recruit drivers and book collectors to assist in money laundering.
Riders collect gold in China to launder money
According to prosecutors' investigation, members of the group pretended to be Shanghai police officers in July last year, pretending to an international student with a Chinese surname studying in Singapore that his account was involved in a money laundering case, and tricked the international student with a Chinese surname into traveling to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in September. After Watson arrived there, he was forced by members of the syndicate to film a video of him being tied up and beaten, and then extorted four kilograms of gold from his Taiwanese businessman father. The syndicate also sent drivers to collect the gold in China and launder the money.
Prosecutors conducted 10 rounds of searches and seized more than 10 million in cash
Gao Ruying, chief prosecutor of the Changhua District Prosecutor's Office, said that from October last year to May this year, the prosecutors launched ten waves of searches and arrested 17 defendants including Lin. In the whole case, they seized more than NT$10 million in cash. They also seized the brand-new Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG sedan that Lin purchased with illegal gains. The price was changed to NT$1.02 million by the Changhua Branch of the Administrative Enforcement Department. The prosecutors also requested the confiscation of related criminal proceeds.
Gao Ruying said that the entire case was prosecuted in six levels against 20 defendants, involving the "Regulations on the Prevention of Organized Crime", the "Regulations on the Prevention of Fraud and Crime Harm" and money laundering crimes. The prosecutor specifically requested a severe sentence of 25 years for the ringleader Lin Nu, which is currently being heard by the Changhua District Court.
Regarding Liao Nan, the Changhua District Court determined that he and Lin Nv jointly managed the "Tiancheng Telephone Room", recruited telephone operators, and defrauded four Chinese people of a total of more than NT$7.16 million by using "involving Zhang Jian's fraud case" and "causing the old lady to commit suicide". The court sentenced him to a total of thirty-eight years and four months for various crimes, including aggravated fraud, special money laundering, and forgery of special documents, and ordered him to serve for sixteen years, with the possibility of appeal.
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