Law enforcement authorities yesterday announced a three-month extension to a crackdown on organized crime.
“I will not tell you how strict it will be, but I can assure you that the measures will be similar to what we have done for the past three months,” Minister of the Interior Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) told a press conference at the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB).
Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫), State Public Prosecutor General Huang Shih-ming (黃世銘), Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director-General Chen Chih-yang (陳志揚), National Police Agency Director-General Wang Cho-chiun (王卓鈞), CIB Commissioner Lin Teh-hua (林德華) and Lieutenant General Lee Hsiang-chou (李翔宙), head of the Military Police, also participated in the press conference.
Statistics on the crackdown showed that 99 “major gangsters and criminals” were arrested.
“We have taken four major actions during that period, and we are pretty happy with the results,” Wang said.
The nation’s police head said the most significant developments during that period were the arrests of two major fraud rings in coordinated operations with Chinese authorities, and the arrest earlier this week of Wang Chun-wei (王俊偉), one of the nation’s 10 most-wanted fugitives.
Wang Chun-wei, who has been on the run from authorities for seven years, was apprehended on Monday after using a pay phone to contact a call girl in Sinjhuang, Taipei County. He was allegedly involved in the murders of two Taichung gang members as well as multiple kidnappings and shootings, police said.
“Through these actions, we established closer cooperation with our counterparts in China, which should be helpful as we try to locate, arrest and repatriate Taiwanese fugitives there,” Wang Cho-chiun said.
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