A fugitive in a suspected cosmetic surgery fraud case today returned to Taiwan from Canada, after being wanted for six years.
Internet celebrity Su Chen-tuan (蘇陳端), known as Lady Nai Nai (貴婦奈奈), and her former boyfriend, plastic surgeon Paul Huang (黃博健), allegedly defrauded clients and friends of about NT$1 billion (US$30.66 million).
Su was put on a wanted list in 2019 when she lived in Toronto, Canada, after failing to respond to subpoenas and arrest warrants from the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office.
Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times
Su arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 5am today on an EVA Air flight accompanied by a legal attache from the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB).
She was met by Taipei MJIB officers at arrival, informed of her rights and legal procedures, handcuffed and placed under guard.
She was taken to the MJIB Taipei Office for questioning and then transferred to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office to face charges.
Su appeared relatively calm at the airport this morning, although she did not speak to reporters.
Huang and Su’s clinic shut down in 2018 after the couple declared bankruptcy and allegedly transferred NT$1 billion to foreign bank accounts.
The couple fled to the US in November 2018 along with fellow suspects Huang Li-hsiung (黃立雄), Paul Huang’s father and the clinic’s director, and his, wife Huang Lin-li (黃林麗), before relocating to Canada.
Legal attaches in the US and Canada had been closely monitoring the case, and the Taiwan Representative Office Canada and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto worked together to arrange Su’s departure yesterday, the MJIB said.
Taiwan does not have an extradition treaty with Canada.
In recent days, Su wrote a letter to the MJIB in which she said she had been falsely accused and denied any involvement in the clinic run by Paul Huang, stating her intent to return to Taiwan to clear her name.
Su allegedly used her high-profile name to commit fraud before becoming a fugitive, said Lo I-pei (羅益培), a section chief from the MJIB’s International Criminal Affairs Division.
Huang Li-hsiung and Huang Lin-li contacted the bureau in April last year expressing their willingness to return after they were unable to extend their residency in Canada, and were escorted back to Taiwan in May last year.
Charges were dropped against Huang Lin-li and she was released without bail, while Huang Li-hsiung was released on bail of NT$500,000.
The investigation remains ongoing.
Additional reporting by CNA
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