What Is the Gov’t’s Counter-policy Vis-à-Vis the M’land’s Hefty Penalties Against Our Fraud Offenders?

  What Is the Gov’t’s Counter-policy Vis-à-Vis the M’land’s Hefty Penalties Against Our Fraud Offenders?

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

December 24, 2017

 Translation of an Excerpt

Last year Taiwan’s fraud ring suspects in Kenya were repatriated to the Chinese Mainland; recently they were all convicted by Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court, the most serious offenders receiving sentences of 15 years in prison. This is the first case which completed trial and sentencing in the cross-Strait fight for jurisdiction over fraud suspects; in the future, several hundred Taiwanese fraud suspects could also be convicted and sentenced heavily by the Mainland following this model.

In recent years, Taiwan’s fraud rings have been perfecting their skills and quickly duplicating them with footprints extending to five continents. It could be called "global operations," some fraud elements from Southeast Asia even came to Taiwan for training. That Taiwan has become an export country of international fraud has become an international plague and has brought many negative comments on the international image of Taiwan.

This time Taiwan’s fraud suspects were convicted and sentenced heavily on the Mainland, but many people in Taiwan applauded with ovation, believing that the problem our government could not manage and control may perhaps be eradicated by hefty penalties on the other side of the Strait. The fraud rings utilized sophisticated fraud techniques to defraud the fruits of the labor from the innocent public; their acts were despicable. However, the Tsai government, for political reasons, led to a situation in which the two sides of the Strait were unable to cooperate in fighting fraud crimes, even exhibiting misguided approaches of "safeguarding the human rights of fraud criminals." This will only make people lose further trust in the government.

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