A court in Beijing on Thursday sentenced 29 Taiwanese suspects accused of fraud to prison terms ranging from 4 1/2 to 14 years, after they were escorted from Spain to China last June. Taiwan‘s Land Commission called on the Chinese side to give these Taiwanese nationals various judicial rights and interests.
The Beijing Municipal No. 1 Intermediate Court noted that in 2016, 29 Taiwanese nationals, including Guo Zhengmake, and their accomplices formed a fraud ring in Spain, using telecommunications and Internet technology to make voice calls to “Chinese residents” on the mainland and in Hong Kong, posing as government employees to commit fraud. It is reported that the suspects were arrested in Spain at the end of the same year. Spain handed them over to China in accordance with a local court decision and an extradition treaty between China and the West.
Taiwan Council of Land Affairs spokesman Chiu Chui-ching said Thursday that the Chinese side should protect the various judicial rights of the Taiwanese defendants and should also facilitate family visits in accordance with the cross-strait judicial assistance agreement.
Taiwan pointed out that hundreds of Taiwanese nationals suspected of telecom fraud have been transferred to China in recent years from countries such as Kenya, Cambodia and Armenia, while they were sometimes forcibly deported.
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