Police in Tainan on Wednesday evening arrested seven migrant workers that had gone missing from their place of employment, after the driver of the vehicle they were riding in failed to comply with police during a traffic stop.
Officers from the Yongkang Precinct of the Tainan City Police Department on Thursday said they had been following a black van as part of a larger investigation involving illegal immigration, when the driver of the van refused to comply with police during a traffic stop on Zhongshan East Road in the city’s Yongkang District (永康).
Photo: Wu Chun-feng, Taipei Times
The driver locked the doors, refused to roll down his window or open the door, and began to move the vehicle, at which time an officer broke the driver’s-side window to take control of the vehicle, police said.
Police arrested seven Vietnamese nationals aged 20 to 40 that were in the vehicle, six on suspicion of failure to report to their places of employment as required by the conditions of their visas, and one suspected of having entered the country illegally, police said.
Police said the arrests were part of a larger investigation that began earlier in the month, and involved the arrests of five other migrant workers on June 20, in the same district. The case is to be tried at the Tainan District Court, police said.
The Taipei City Government yesterday said contractors organizing its New Year’s Eve celebrations would be held responsible after a jumbo screen played a Beijing-ran television channel near the event’s end. An image showing China Central Television (CCTV) Channel 3 being displayed was posted on the social media platform Threads, sparking an outcry on the Internet over Beijing’s alleged political infiltration of the municipal government. A Taipei Department of Information and Tourism spokesman said event workers had made a “grave mistake” and that the Television Broadcasts Satellite (TVBS) group had the contract to operate the screens. The city would apply contractual penalties on TVBS
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