450 arrested in China telecom scam
By IANSWednesday, August 25, 2010
BEIJING - Police from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have busted a gang involved in a major telecommunications scam and arrested 451 suspects.
Among those arrested Wednesday, 186 suspects are from Taiwan, one is a Hong Kong national and the remaining are from China, Xinhua reported citing the ministry of public security.
Police said that in May, a Taiwan national named Jiang rented an overseas server and set up a telecommunications fraud network in China’s Fujian province. The network provided number changes and other technical services to cheat consumers.
The gang consisted of three units: a technical support team, a unit which made fraudulent calls and a bank team that worked on the illicit monetary dealings.
The gang’s bosses, including Jiang, were based in Taiwan, the ministry said.
Police in China have destroyed over 150 telecommunications fraud gangs and arrested 1,282 suspects in a special campaign that began in June this year.
