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Armored car heist pair repatriated to Taiwan

Two suspects in the nation's biggest cash heist, Lee Han-yang (李漢揚) and his younger brother Lee Chin-tsan (李金瓚), were deported from China and repatriated to Taiwan yesterday.

TV news clips showed the hooded and handcuffed Lee brothers being taken from a Chinese boat by Chinese security officials at a port in Matzu (馬祖), where they were handed over to the Taiwanese Red Cross and then to Taiwanese police.

Matsu is about 19km off the coast of China's Fujian Province.

The two were later flown to Taipei in a police helicopter, the National Police Agency said in a statement.

Yesterday's repatriation was in accordance with the Kinmen Accord, a mechanism by which cross-strait illegal immigrants and criminals can be returned to their point of origin, signed in 1990.

The pair returned to Taipei in the afternoon, where they were questioned by police and prosecutors.

Police yesterday also arrested four suspected accomplices.

The NT$56 million (US$1.72 million) believed stolen in the heist has not been recovered.

Police hope their questioning of the suspects will help them recover the money.

Lee Han-yang, an armored car driver, allegedly stole NT$56 million from his vehicle in Taipei on Jan. 2 with the help of several accomplices.

China's Xinhua news agency quoted Vice Minister of Public Security Wu Heping (武和平) as saying that Chinese police would make every effort to repatriate criminal suspects to Taiwan.
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