CIB agents arrested three men and five women in Taipei County on Tuesday after
being tipped off on the human smuggling operation late last year.
CIB said that the operation acted behind the front of a corporation named "Yiu
Chia Li" in Taiwan to solicit men to engage in prostitution.
Mainland women who were told to enter into false marriages with Taiwan men in
mainland China were brought into Taiwan on grounds of joining their husbands.
The highly organized operation collects a fee from the women for brokering the
false marriages while paying for Taiwan men who are willing to use their names
in the marriage documents.
The culprits then will operate under arrangement with hotels to locate its
customers or directly send the women to the customer's residences.
The women were forced to give up all their earnings to the human smugglers who
the CIB said had netted over NT$10 million over eight years.
Reports said that close to one thousand women engaged in illicit acts with
Taiwan men in the operation including township councilors in the Taipei area.
On Tuesday, 40 police officers raided six locations across Taipei County and
arrested five mainland women along with three men: Wang Lien-yi, Chang
Chih-chang, and Wang Pao-shen.
CIB are still looking for the mastermind of the operation surnamed Tsan and his
female accomplice who was in charge of communicating with hotels. CIB warned
that mainland women entering into prostitution in Taiwan has become a growing
problem in Taiwan and that the bureau will list human smuggling as its top
priority.
