Kenya deports 77 Chinese fraud suspects
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SEVENTY-SEVEN Chinese telecom fraud suspects, including 45 from Taiwan, have been deported by Kenyan police to China’s mainland, the Ministry of Public Security said.
The first 10 were repatriated on Saturday and the rest yesterday, it said.
This is the first time that China has repatriated such a large group of telecom fraud suspects from Africa.
In recent years, syndicates led by people from Taiwan and based in Southeast Asia, Africa and Oceania have been falsely presenting themselves as law enforcement officers to extort money from people on the Chinese mainland through telephone calls, according to Chinese police.
In a case cited by the ministry, a person surnamed Yang from the city of Duyun, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, was cheated out of 117 million yuan (US$18.1 million) in December last year.
Victims in other cases include migrant workers, teachers, students and elderly people, some of whom committed suicide after losing their money, it said.
The ministry said judicial organs on the Chinese mainland have legal rights of jurisdiction over the repatriated suspects.
Mainland police will investigate Taiwan suspects in strict accordance with the law and keep Taiwan authorities informed, it said.
The 77 suspects are alleged to have been part of two telecom fraud syndicates, and were arrested by Kenyan police in separate raids in 2014 and earlier this year.
In recent years, police from the mainland and Taiwan have arrested more than 7,700 suspects in 47 joint operations to fight telecom frauds based in Southeast Asia.
However, in many of the cases handled by Taiwan judicial organs, Taiwan suspects were not brought to justice and victims on the mainland were unable to retrieve their lost money, An Fengshan, spokesperson for the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office, told a news conference yesterday.
Quite a few Taiwan suspects were released as soon as they were returned to Taiwan and some resumed their wrongdoing soon after, he said.
“They caused a tremendous loss to people on the Chinese mainland ... triggering strong discontent,” he said.
The office’s director Zhang Zhijun informed Taiwan’s mainland affairs chief about the repatriation on Tuesday.
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