Chinese mainland police yesterday deported a Taiwan man, Lee
Han-yang, accused of stealing funds from a Taipei bank security
van, said the Ministry of Public Security. Lee's alleged
accomplice, his brother Lee Chin-chan who lives on the mainland,
was also escorted to Taiwan, in line with an agreement between the
two sides.
Authorities allege Lee Han-yang, who worked as an armored vehicle
driver in Taipei, stole NT$56 million (US$1.75 million) after
drugging a colleague in the van on January 2.
The ministry said Lee's van was carrying NT$79.2 million to a
bank on January 2. On the way, Lee allegedly drugged his colleague,
transferred NT$56 million dollars to another car and then drove to
Taoyuan International Airport.
He gave the money to a man on his way to the airport, and then
flew to Hong Kong with NT$200,000, authorities said.
On January 5, mainland police were informed that Lee Han-yang
had crossed the border into neighboring Guangdong Province to meet his brother Lee
Chin-chan. The two fled to Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province the next day and hid in an
apartment.
Police captured Lee Han-yang in Yunnan on January 9, together
with his brother, accused of aiding and abetting him to escape
police custody.
Police on the Chinese mainland have returned 123 criminal
suspects to Taiwan since 2000, the MPS said on Tuesday.
(Shanghai Daily January 26, 2007)
