One day after a leader of the Sun Union gang was repatriated from China, the National Police Admin-istration's Criminal Investigation Bureau confirmed yesterday that the gang had received classified information about the police crackdown against them last December.
"These people knew just about all of our moves. We are still investigating and trying to understand how they got the classified information," said Wang Wen-chung (
Wang said that his colleagues told him that officers had discovered an official note about the crackdown as well as a list of the Sun Union members, both issued by the bureau, at one of the gang's offices in Taoyuan when they raided the location in December last year.
Police are investigating how the gang members received the classified dossiers, but have made no progress thus far, according to Wang.
"Since Wu Tung-tang (
Wu was repatriated from China on Monday. Police in Guangdong Province arrested him in Zhuhai on March 13 after he attempted to enter China from Thailand with a fake visa.
While confirming the leak at yesterday's press conference, Wang did not provide any evidence or name any suspects.
He said that classified documents such as those the officers had discovered could only be checked out or duplicated by prosecutors, judges, investigators or police officers who are working on a specific case.
Wu was one of the country's most wanted fugitives due to his alleged involvement in 17 separate criminal cases since 1985.
Wu founded the Sun Union in 1986. In 1990, the police put him on the national list of wanted gangsters, prompting Wu to flee to China.
He was arrested three months later by Chinese police for using a fake visa and was repatriated to Taiwan in 1991 to be jailed.
He was paroled in 1994 but allegedly continued to commit serious crimes ranging from blackmail to extortion.
He was again listed as a wanted man and fled to Cambodia in 1996.
He entered Thailand using a fake visa the following year and stayed there until he entered China again last month.
According to police, Wu was active in the gang's activities and was a decision-maker for the organization even though he had been living in other countries for years.
Bureau officers transferred Wu to the Keelung District Prosecutors' Office after interrogating him at the bureau's Taipei headquarters on Monday.
At approximately 1:30am yesterday, the Keelung District Court approved Prosecutor Chang Chieh-chin's (張介欽) request to detain Wu.
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