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Directing the Investigation：Prosecutor Chia-Qian, Wu, Section Jian, Taiwan New Taipei District Prosecutors Office

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Investigating Departments：Criminal Investigation Bureau Second Investigation Corps (Squadron I), New Taipei City Police Department Zhonghe Precinct, and Keelung City Police Department Third Precinct

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Time of Seizure：November 20, 2025; February 3, 2026; April 14, 2026

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Location of Seizure：Taipei City, New Taipei City, and Taoyuan City

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Suspects：Wang ○○ (male, born in 1984), Ye ○○ (male, born in 2001)
                  Lin ○○ (male, born in 1987), Huang ○○ (male, born in 1980)
                 Huang ○○ (male, born in 1973), Wu ○○ (female, born in 1981)
                 Huang ○○ (male, born in 1979), Su ○○ (male, born in 1981)
                 Li ○○ (male, born in 1993), Lin ○○ (male, born in 1983)
                 Zheng ○○ (male, born in 1995)

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Stolen Property and Evidence Seized：The seized items included cash and bank deposits totaling over NT$24.35 million, 25 mobile phones, several batches of credit card slips and invoices, several batches of jewelry store ledgers, several designer bags and                                                                 watches, and a Mercedes-Benz car.

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Case Summary：

(一)

The Criminal Investigation Bureau (Second Investigation Corps / Squadron I), received intelligence indicating that a jewelry store owner colluded with a fraudulent money laundering group to launder illicit funds by exchanging UnionPay cards for cash. Therefore, the Bureau formed a special task force with the Keelung City Police Department’s 3rd Precinct and the Zhonghe Precinct of the New Taipei City Police Department. The case was referred to and directed by Prosecutor Chia-Qian Wu of the New Taipei District Prosecutors Office for further investigation.

(二)

An investigation revealed that the gangsters of illegal organizations established a money laundering operation and cooperated with overseas scam centers to have victims in mainland China defrauded by impersonating police and prosecutors. Then the illegal gains were laundered by the money laundering hubs in Taiwan.

(三)

The money laundering operation functioned by colluding with “jewelry stores.” First, they recruited the jewelry stores willing to exchange credit card transactions for cash as the money-laundering bases and agreed on a profit-sharing ratio. Next, the UnionPay card numbers and other information of the Chinese victims that were obtained through fraud were connected to a mobile app to be used for crimes. Then, the money-mule was instructed to make fake purchases at the designated jewelry stores with the use of their phones, forge signatures on the transaction slips to create the illusion of a legitimate transaction, so as to mislead the paying bank into believing that it was a legitimate transaction and to transfer the funds to the bank account of the jewelry stores. The money laundering center would send a money mule to collect the cash from the jewelry store owners once the funds were disbursed by the bank. The money laundering center would deliberately create gaps in the cash flow through multiple layers of cash transfers to complete the cross-border money laundering. Huang ○○, the suspect, provided the vehicles of his catering company to unidentified drivers for collecting cash from the jewelry stores and transporting the illicit funds, using legal means to cover up illegal activities.

(四)

The task force after conducting a long-term investigation and analysis of related financial flows carried out three waves of raids on November 20, 2025, February 3, 2026, and April 14, 2026. These operations led to the arrest of 11 suspects including Wang ○○, and the searching of three jewelry stores, one boutique, and a catering company involved in the criminal act. A total of more than NT$117 million was laundered within a single year. The task force seized the illegal proceeds and related evidence, and had all the suspects transferred to the Taiwan New Taipei District Prosecutors Office, of which, eight suspects including Wang ○○ were ordered to be detained and held incommunicado by the court. The case was transferred to the Taiwan New Taipei District Prosecutors Office for investigation in April 2026, in accordance with charges of aggravated fraud, forgery, and violations of the Money Laundering Control Act, the Organized Crime Prevention Act, the Banking Act, and the Fraud Crime Hazard Prevention Act.

(五)

The Criminal Investigation Bureau urges the public to exercise caution regarding vague investment messages requesting the purchase of gold at jewelry stores. Please call the 165 Anti-Fraud Hotline immediately for verification. In addition, jewelry stores and other relevant businesses are reminded to implement KYC (Know Your Customer) procedures and accurately report large currency transactions and suspicious transactions in compliance with the Money Laundering Control Act in order to jointly prevent money laundering crimes and to maintain the financial order and public safty.