The government has issued a deportation order for a Spanish fugitive, ordering him to leave the country within 10 days, as he is wanted by European authorities for allegedly operating a car rental scam.
National Immigration Agency (NIA) officials yesterday said Salvador Alejandro Llinas Onate, 48, had been notified that he must leave Taiwan, as he was wanted for committing serious crimes.
The Spaniard has been indicted by Italian prosecutors for allegedly leading a 30 million euros (US$32.74 million) car rental scam and setting up a fraudulent company in Trento, Italy.
Photo copied by Liu Ching-ho, Taipei Times
The deportation order is based on Article 18 of the Immigration Act (入出國及移民法), as a person who might “endanger national interests, public security, public order or the good customs” of the nation could be prohibited from entering Taiwan, the NIA said.
The person could be deported within 10 days after they are served, based on Article 36, it said.
Llinas came to Taiwan in 2019 to live with family members who were residents, it said.
As he was not found to have engaged in unlawful activities, he was granted residency, it said.
NIA officials said they checked with the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan details of the case and confirmed the identity of Llinas, then notified him that he contravened provisions of the Immigration Act.
Due to humanitarian concerns for his wife and two children, the agency gave him 10 days to make arrangements before his deportation, the NIA said.
He was indicted on charges of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, Italian media reported.
He allegedly set up a fictitious company named Autoclick, rented out 1,189 cars, but then illegally resold the vehicles to other customers, and from 2017 to 2018 made an estimated profit of about 30 million euros, they said.
Italian authorities have through Interpol issued an arrest warrant for him, after finding out that he has been overseas since May 2019.
Taiwanese officials said Interpol has not issued any requests to the government.
They said that authorities can only arrest him after the government is officially notified.
Police have issued warnings against traveling to Cambodia or Thailand when others have paid for the travel fare in light of increasing cases of teenagers, middle-aged and elderly people being tricked into traveling to these countries and then being held for ransom. Recounting their ordeal, one victim on Monday said she was asked by a friend to visit Thailand and help set up a bank account there, for which they would be paid NT$70,000 to NT$100,000 (US$2,136 to US$3,051). The victim said she had not found it strange that her friend was not coming along on the trip, adding that when she
TRAGEDY: An expert said that the incident was uncommon as the chance of a ground crew member being sucked into an IDF engine was ‘minuscule’ A master sergeant yesterday morning died after she was sucked into an engine during a routine inspection of a fighter jet at an air base in Taichung, the Air Force Command Headquarters said. The officer, surnamed Hu (胡), was conducting final landing checks at Ching Chuan Kang (清泉崗) Air Base when she was pulled into the jet’s engine for unknown reasons, the air force said in a news release. She was transported to a hospital for emergency treatment, but could not be revived, it said. The air force expressed its deepest sympathies over the incident, and vowed to work with authorities as they
A tourist who was struck and injured by a train in a scenic area of New Taipei City’s Pingsi District (平溪) on Monday might be fined for trespassing on the tracks, the Railway Police Bureau said yesterday. The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a call at 4:37pm on Monday about an incident in Shifen (十分), a tourist destination on the Pingsi Railway Line. After arriving on the scene, paramedics treated a woman in her 30s for a 3cm to 5cm laceration on her head, the department said. She was taken to a hospital in Keelung, it said. Surveillance footage from a
INFRASTRUCTURE: Work on the second segment, from Kaohsiung to Pingtung, is expected to begin in 2028 and be completed by 2039, the railway bureau said Planned high-speed rail (HSR) extensions would blanket Taiwan proper in four 90-minute commute blocs to facilitate regional economic and livelihood integration, Railway Bureau Deputy Director-General Yang Cheng-chun (楊正君) said in an interview published yesterday. A project to extend the high-speed rail from Zuoying Station in Kaohsiung to Pingtung County’s Lioukuaicuo Township (六塊厝) is the first part of the bureau’s greater plan to expand rail coverage, he told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times). The bureau’s long-term plan is to build a loop to circle Taiwan proper that would consist of four sections running from Taipei to Hualien, Hualien to
RSS