Indonesia on Saturday deported 76 Chinese nationals who were among hundreds rounded up across Asia in connection with an alleged massive online fraud.
Indonesia has deported 76 Chinese nationals who were among hundreds rounded up across Asia in connection with an alleged massive online fraud.
"We have deported 76 Chinese nationals with a chartered flight departed at 14.18 (0718 GMT) to Beijing," an official at Soekarno Hatta international airport Frans Yoseph told AFP.
He said that the Taiwanese nationals had not yet been deported.
Nearly 600 suspects, including 410 Taiwanese and 181 Chinese nationals, were nabbed in a carefully planned operation spanning six countries for allegedly running Internet and telephone scams mainly targeting mainland Chinese.
They were arrested in Taiwan, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand on Thursday.
Details of the scams, which appeared to have varied from country to country, are sketchy, but police believe thousands of people were taken in.
In Indonesia, the suspects rented houses with broadband access and, posing as officials, made phone calls over the Internet to con victims in China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam into giving them money, police said.
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