A Taiwanese man charged with defrauding investors of NT$20.1 billion (US$650.1 million) by using falsified financial statements from a now delisted drug company, and who had been at large since 2020, was on Wednesday brought back to Taiwan, the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) said in a press release.
Tony Huang (黃文烈), 62, former chairman of Pharmally International Holding Co, was flanked by agents from the MJIB, as well as from the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), on a flight from Thailand that landed at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at about 4pm, the MJIB said.
Huang falsified financial reports and stole more than NT$20.1 billion through fraudulent means from 2014 to 2020, the statement said.
Photo: Tony Yao, Taipei Times
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office indicted Huang on Feb. 23 last year on charges of contravening the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法).
ARREST WARRANT
The Taipei District Court issued a warrant for his arrest on Dec. 25, but Huang had fled Taiwan on July 21, 2020, the MJIB said.
While on the run, Huang entered the UK from Singapore and later flew to Thailand using a Vanuatu passport, the CIB said.
Through a collaboration between the Thai Immigration Bureau and Taiwanese authorities, Huang was arrested on May 24 in Bangkok, Huang Chun-chia (黃俊嘉), investigative specialist at the MJIB’s International Affairs Division, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon.
Upon his arrival at the airport, agents seized the 1 million Thai baht (US$28,527) that he owned and sent them over to the Taipei District Court.
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