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Nigerian ‘fraud ring’ busted

Five Nigerians — four men and a woman — were detained in Taipei and Tainan counties on Thursday and Friday last week for allegedly swindling money from would-be investors, Hsinchu City police said on Friday. Police tracked down the five suspects, who included one naturalized Taiwanese, after receiving information from a Filipino who said she was the wife of a Taiwanese man swindled by a foreign fraud ring. Police then detained the Nigerian woman and learned that she had overstayed her tourist visa after entering the country last year. Police allege the woman set up a dummy company, pretending to deal in second-hand cars, to defraud investors. The Filipino told police she had been defrauded of some NT$500,000 (US$15,900) by the Nigerian woman and that she had only recently learned that the Nigerian belonged to a fraud ring. Police also allege that the ring illegally shipped used cars back to their home country.



Kaohsiung opens foreigner service center

Kaohsiung City’s Bureau of Social Affairs opened its eighth foreign spouse service center earlier this month to offer more help to foreign husbands and wives in their daily lives. The new service center is located at a children’s day care center in Cianjhen District (前鎮). In addition to serving as locations for social gatherings, the centers offer cultural courses, professional training and free counseling on family relationships. The municipal authorities encourage foreign spouses to use the service centers to explore their own relationships and build a wider network of friends. As of the end of last month, there were a total of 11,693 Chinese spouses and 7,645 husbands and wives from other foreign countries living in Kaohsiung, the city’s statistics showed.

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