Bank clerk Chen Tsu-tsan (
"It is our understanding that Chen has been in constant contact with her brother since she fled. We have been trying to ask her brother to talk her into coming back and facing the situation, and it obviously worked," said Sergeant Wu Chen-hsuan (
Wu said that investigators were always aware of Chen's whereabouts after she left Taiwan.
Chen told her brother that she would arrive in Kaohsiung at 8:50pm last night where the police were awaiting her.
She was immediately escorted to the police station for further questioning and was still in custody at press time last night.
Chen, 31, a grandchild of the late former speaker of Kaohsiung City Council Chen Yin-grey (
Police said that Chen lied to her colleagues on Monday that because her grandmother was dying she needed to transfer her assets to her relative's accounts to avoid inheritance tax.
She asked the bank to lend her NT$16.3 million and promised her grandmother would return the money to the bank the next day.
Police said Chen also forged documents in order to fraudulently remove more than NT$3 million from other customers' accounts at the bank.
When Chen did not appear for work on Tuesday morning, and her colleagues were unable to contact her, the bank reported the matter to the police.
The police discovered that Chen took a flight to Macau on Tuesday morning.
Police recovered NT$290,000 from her Kaohsiung home on Tuesday.
They also found a letter she had left for her family, saying she was tired of having to deal with huge debts and apologising to her family for any consequences of the theft.
Police said Chen's mother told them her daughter was several million in debt.
Fuhwa Bank senior vice president Lu Chung-ping (
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