Taipei, April 15 (CNA) Taiwan's government will send a delegation to China next week to visit a group of 45 Taiwanese fraud suspects, who were sent there from Kenya, and to discuss their release, the Ministry of Justice said Friday.
China agreed Thursday night to the visit by the Taiwan delegation, which is now being assembled by the justice ministry, the Mainland Affairs Council and the Criminal Investigation Bureau, said Minister of Justice Lo Ying-shay (羅瑩雪).
She said the delegation will include Chen Wen-chi (陳文琪), director of the Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs, and prosecutor Chang Chuen-huei (張春暉), who was one of the negotiators in a similar case in 2011, when 14 Taiwan fraud suspects were brought back after being sent to China from the Philippines.
A second prosecutor is also being considered to join the delegation, which will leave for China Monday at the earliest, Lo said.
Since April 8, a total of 45 Taiwanese citizens accused of involvement in telecommunications fraud have been deported to China by Kenyan police, despite Taiwan's strong opposition to such a move.
China has said it has jurisdiction in the case since many of the fraud victims were Chinese citizens who had lost millions of dollars.
(By Page Tsai and Lilian Wu)
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