TAIPEI: The joint efforts and cooperation between Taiwan police authorities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Malaysia and the United Kingdom recently resulted in a crackdown on a drug-smuggling ring in Taiwan, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) announced here the other day.
The CIB said in a released statement that police forces in the Greater Taipei area had arrested two suspects surnamed Lee and Tseng, allegedly members of a drug-smuggling ring, during a raid in New Taipei on Jan. 9.
Before their arrest, the two suspects delivered to a post office in Taipei a package containing 3.2 kilograms of amphetamine, it said. The package was originally scheduled to be sent to Australia.
The CIB said the two suspects are a married couple that is part of a cross-border narcotic trafficking ring operating for years between Taiwan, China, Malaysia, the UK and Australia.
Taiwan police previously arrested another member of the ring, a British-Chinese suspect known as “Danny,” during a raid in Dec. 19, 2014.
Following the two suspects’ arrest in Taiwan, the CIB immediately urged police in cooperating countries to arrest other members of the drug-trafficking ring.
Based on evidence gathered from Taiwan, Malaysian police authorities later arrested Danny’s father on Jan. 13, the CIB said.
