Former Telecom Executive Suspected of Illegally Profiting 電信前副主管 涉與業者共謀收取價差獲利

Former Far Eastern Telecom deputy manager surnamed Shih is suspected of inside job by collaborating with business owner surnamed Cheng to scam over hundreds of millions of NT dollars in 7 years. After multiple searches, the police brought a total of 9 people back for questioning and both Cheng and Shih were released on bail of NT$500,000 to NT$1M respectively. 

Reporter: “Ms. Shih, the company has sued you for breach of trust. What is your response?”

Former Deputy Manager of Far Eastern Telecom surnamed Shih was brought back to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office for re-interrogation. Facing the legal suit, she remained silent. In actuality, she is suspected of conducting an inside job and colluding with a business owner surnamed Cheng to profit from cellular fee discrepancies.

Reporter: “Did you collaborate with Ms. Shih? How much profit did you make?”

Cheng walked into the district prosecutors office with his head down and completely silent. The prosecution initiated the search order on Oct. 25 and interviewed nine defendants and witnesses. After all-night interrogation, five defendants were ordered bail anywhere from NT$100,000 to NT$1 million.

Tsai Wei-yi, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Taipei District Prosecutors Office: “For this case, after the prosecutor's interrogation throughout the night of five defendants and four witnesses, defendant Cheng and defendant Shih were each ordered bail at NT$1 million and NT$500,000 while the other three defendants each ordered bail from NT$100,000 to NT$400,000.”

The prosecution discovered that Shih was responsible for promoting the telephone traffic business, where Cheng collaborated with her by acquiring a huge volume of cellular numbers while establishing an offshore router company to contract the Far Eastern international call forwarding service business. Then employees were asked to continue making international calls to the islands of the Indian Ocean during "discounted times" at fees much lower than the forwarding fees he collected from Far Eastern. From 2013 to 2020, they scammed hundreds of millions in fee discrepancies in telephone traffic bills. Far Eastern Telecom had issued a statement emphasizing that the former deputy manager was fired a year ago and it will fully cooperate with the prosecutors for the investigation. However, whether this affected their financials Far Eastern failed to further elaborate. The prosecutors will investigate this case in accordance with the Special Breach of Trust crime under the violation of the Securities and Exchange Act.
 

「施小姐，公司告妳背信，妳有什麼看法？」遠傳電信施姓前副理被帶回地檢署複訊，面對前東家提告，一句話也不願多談。原來她涉嫌內神通外鬼，跟鄭姓業者勾結，賺取價差獲利。

「你有跟施小姐共謀嗎？你到底獲利多少？」涉嫌共謀的鄭姓業者走進北檢，低著頭同樣不發一語。檢方25日發動搜索，約談9名被告加證人，經過漏夜複訊，5名被告分別諭令10到100萬元交保。

北檢襄閱主任檢察官蔡偉逸指出：「本案經檢察官漏夜訊問5名被告、4名證人，訊問後命鄭姓被告、施姓被告，分別交保100萬跟50萬元，其餘3名被告各交保10萬至40萬元。」

檢方調查發現，遠傳施姓副理負責話務推廣業務，鄭姓業者涉嫌跟她合作，一邊收購大量門號，一邊成立境外路由公司，承攬遠傳國際電話轉接業務，指派員工挑在電話費減價時段，持續打電話到印度洋小島，縱使要負擔電話費，但這費用也遠低於他向遠傳收取的轉接費。從2013到2020年，透過話務費價差詐得上億元。遠傳電信發出聲明，強調涉案副理已經在一年前解雇，將全面配合檢調偵查。不過是否影響財務業務？遠傳對此沒有再做出說明，而檢方也將全案朝違反《證券交易法》特別背信罪來偵辦。