Police arrested the ring leader, Shen Chan-chih, an Indonesian woman who has
obtained Taiwan citizenship, as well as 50 ring members including men who acted
as the Indonesian women's husbands in the scam.
According to police, the ring arranged for the Indonesian women to come to
Taiwan in arranged marriages, but turned them into slaves after they had
arrived on the island.
'They would confiscate the Indonesian women's passports and force them to work
in factories, sometimes for up to 18 hours a day, and hand over part of the
salary to the human traffickers,' Lai Ching- tzung, spokesman for the Keelung
Police Bureau, told reporters.
Luciana, one of the victims, said she did not know it was a trick because she
had a bona fide wedding with her Taiwanese husband in Indonesia.
'But after he had brought me to Taiwan, he vanished, and the criminal ring
forced me to work in a factory in central Taiwan,' she said on TV.
'During the six months, they changed my boss three times. One factory owner
sexually molested me under the excuse that he needed to give me a medical
checkup,' she said.
Police will repatriate the 35 Indonesian women with the help of the Indonesian
government.
