Police Bust Fraud Ring in Remote Nantou Location|詐騙機房設武界隱密山間 警全副武裝逮人

The Criminal Investigation Bureau recently busted a fraud ring located in a mountainous area in Nantou's Wujie Village. All 15 suspects are Taiwanese, and investigators are trying to find out if they had Chinese accomplices.


Armed police officers prepare to raid a fraud ring operations room in Nantou County's Wujie Village, taking back routes to avoid the fraud ring's surveillance cameras.

They enter through the back door of a galvanized steel building. The space is small, but has been divided into six rooms where 14 people are posing as Chinese Ministry of Public Security officials to defraud residents of Handan, Hebei Province.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau worked with the police departments of Changhua County and Nantou County to conduct the raid. Thirty police officers were involved, and had to climb a mountain in order to carry out the raid. The main suspect, a man surnamed Chen, had determined that this location in an indigenous village was not easy to get to, so he leased almost four hectares of land for NT$200,000 a year and recruited young people to join his fraud ring.

There were a total of 97 victims from Handan, Hebei Province, China. At present, we have determined that 3.1 million renminbi were defrauded. We brought along battering rams and slings, because the way up the mountain was rugged and uneven. We spent half an hour climbing up to get to the back door of the fraud ring's operations room.

The police said Chen does not appear to have any geographical connection with Handan, and the defrauded money was remitted to Taiwan through unknown channels. The police are trying to determine if he had any accomplices.



員警全副武裝，從武界部落往茶園的林班地前進，避開大路，就怕被嫌犯沿路架設的監視器發現。

從鐵皮屋後方進入後，發現空間不大的屋內，隔了六個房間，擠了14個人。警方破門時，詐騙集團成員，假冒是中國公安，正在對中國河北省邯鄲市民眾進行詐騙。

刑事局中打，配合彰化及南投警方，動員三十名警力，徒步從山下攀登上山，才成功破獲這個機房。陳姓主嫌看中武界原住民的林班地，隱密、不易到達，容易監控，向原住民以一年20萬的金額，租下四甲地，招募年輕人加入詐騙，平常統一管理。

刑事局偵六隊第一隊隊長 潘智強表示：「總共有大陸河北省邯鄲市97名被害人，目前清查被害所得310萬元(人民幣)。同仁有揹負這個破門器材，以及吊繩。因為我們沿路的山上崎嶇不平，所以我們警力，經過半小時攀登之後，才抵達這個詐騙機房的後門。」

警方表示，陳姓主嫌與中國河北邯鄲市應無地緣關係，詐騙得手的三百多萬人民幣，透過不明的匯兌管道匯回台灣，是否還有其他同夥，還在調查中。