SHAM DETAINMENT:
The victims were to be interviewed for data entry work, but forcibly confined in hostel rooms by a criminal ring that also posessed guns and narcotics
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By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Police have rescued five people in Taipei and nine in Kaohsiung who had been locked up by criminal groups that used their bank accounts for money laundering.
Both cases involve people applying for fake job interviews.
In the Taipei case, police on Wednesday rescued five people, two men and three women, who said they were forcibly confined inside rooms at a hostel. Seven alleged members of a criminal ring, believed to be headed by a 31-year-old man surnamed Chang (張), were arrested.
Two modified handguns, one replica toy rifle, nine bullets, a homemade explosive device and metal brass rings were seized during the raid, Chen Jen-chia (陳人嘉), head of the criminal investigation section of the Taipei Nangang Police Precinct (南港分局), told a media briefing yesterday.
Police seized account books, bank receipts, cash, mobile phones and computers, suspecting the group of investment fraud, money laundering and other illegal financial activities, Chen said.
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