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The joint effort of Taiwan and Thailand's authorities delivers success! The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) worked with Thailand's immigration authority to bring the criminal fugitives CHEN, CHIH-TSAN and LIU, MEI-HSUEH to Taiwan from Bangkok. The two criminal fugitives were successfully captured in Thailand, Bangkok in the afternoon of July 18, 2023, and transported to the Taiwan Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office (hereinafter referred to as “the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office”).

The joint effort of Taiwan and Thailand's judicial authorities delivers success! The MJIB, Criminal Investigation Bureau, National Immigration Agency, and Thailand's law enforcement agencies worked together to arrest and escort criminal fugitive Huang Wen-lai from Bangkok to Taiwan Taipei District Prosecutors Office on the afternoon of the 21st.

In October 2022, Director General Wang Chun-Li of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) and Director Christopher Wray of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held a high-level meeting at the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Annual Conference held in Dallas, Texas, United States.

The joint effort of Taiwan and Thailand's judicial authorities delivers success! The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) worked with Thailand's law enforcement agencies to bring the fugitive X-Chih Chang, wanted for financial crimes, to Taiwan from Bangkok, Thailand on the afternoon of the 19th and transported him to the Taiwan Taipei District Prosecutors Office (hereinafter referred to as "the TTDPO").

In October 2018, the Investigation Bureau investigated two false messages that were intended to jeopardize the “nine-in-one” election. Former Deputy Chief Liu of the Kaohsiung Police Bureau Sanmin Second Precinct was involved in posting forged sanction letters with Tsai Ing-Wen’s name to specific chat group on Line with the intent to influence voters. Another man surnamed Zhu was involved in posting images on the “Han Kuo-yu fan group” on Facebook that threatened 7 legislators, including Hsu Chia-ching, Deputy Secretary-General of DPP, and Chao Tien-lin. These two cases were transferred to the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office for reference and processing.

In December, 2018, Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) actively reported the attack on its T-Express mobile ticketing system by a hacker to the Taipei City Field Division of MJIB. The hacker purchased one ticket from Nangang to Taipei at the fare of NT$40 and immediately canceled the ticket. When applying for refund, the hacker tampered with the parameter of the system's refund amount column, changing it to NT$200,000, all in order to deceive the system into carrying out the transaction. Fortunately, the back-end accounting system of THSRC identified the anomaly and promptly suspended the refund.

The Taoyuan City Field Division of the MJIB recently solved the case involving the hacking of email accounts. They arrested the supervisor with surname Huang of the information department in a military academy in Taoyuan. Huang had been accused of using his position to hack several academic email accounts of faculty members and sending false reports to the Complaints of the superior unit under their names from October 22 to 30, 2018. The act seriously affected the reputation and leadership prestige of the academy, so the institution pro-actively reported it to the Taoyuan City Field Division in order to safeguard the unity of the academy and the interests of the victims. The Information & Communication Security Section of the Taoyuan City Field Division investigated the case for several days and prepared sufficient digital evidence before applying to Prosecutor Yeh Yi-fa of the Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office for instruction and investigation. On December 14, 2018, after interviewing the suspect Huang and related witnesses, the prosecutor considered the evidence sufficient and ruled on a NT$150,000 bail.