The cooperative efforts with Chinese law enforcement authorities resulted in the capture of the seventeen suspects in Taiwan and seven in China, CIB officials said. The crime ring had already been cracked down on by Taiwanese police in February.

The seventeen suspects in Taiwan were scattered and arrested separately in Taipei, Miaoli, Taichung, Changhua and Kaohsiung by CIB officers on Thursday. They are currently under investigation at the Taichung Prosecutors Office.

On top of acts of fraud, the suspects — married couples among them — are accused of smuggling Chinese women onto the island in order to join the ring's cross-strait scams.

Taiwan police raided the homes of the fraud ring members and seized incriminating evidence including cash, computers and IP-sharing routers. The most damning evidence were the lists of swindled victims, which showed some living in Taiwan and others from Chinese provinces such as Fujian, Zhejian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Liaoning.