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| Ảnh chụp màn hình bài báo của thông tấn xã Đài Loan cho thấy cảnh 40 thuyến nhân Việt Nam đang bị lực lượng biên phòng Đài Loan cầm giữ tối 6/1/2017. |
Thông tấn xã trung ương Đài Loan CNA trích dẫn giới chức biên phòng nước này cho biết, 40 di dân bất hợp pháp từ Việt Nam, gồm 25 nam và 15 nữ, đã được phát hiện trong hầm chiếc tàu đánh cá Đài Loan chỉ cao có 1,2m.
6 người còn lại là thủy thủ của chiếc tàu cá.
Chiếc tàu cá bị chận bắt khi còn cách bờ biển thành phố Nghi Lan phía đông bắc Đài Loan, khoảng 9,2 hải lý; sau khi biên phòng Đài Loan nhận được tin báo về chiếc thuyền chở di dân lậu.
Cơ quan Biên phòng Đài Loan cho biết, theo lời khai của những thuyền nhân Việt Nam này, để vượt biên đến Đài Loan, họ đã tìm cách sang Trung Quốc bằng đường bộ. Sau đó họ thuê thuyền đánh cá chở sang Đài Loan.
Các thuyền nhân này cũng khai rằng họ phải trả từ 4.000 đôla đến 6.500 đôla mỗi người để được chở sang Đài Loan. Và mỗi chuyến vượt biển như vậy thường kéo dài 4 ngày.
Theo cơ quan biên phòng Đài Loan, đây là vụ bắt giữ thuyền nhân Việt Nam với số lượng lớn nhất từ trước tới nay.
Hiện tất cả 40 thuyền nhân Việt Nam và 6 thủy thủ bị bắt đã được chuyển sang cơ quan công tố Đài Loan để điều tra.
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46 people arrested on boat carrying illegal Vietnamese immigrants
Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) A Taiwan fishing boat carrying illegal Vietnamese immigrants was intercepted off the coast of Yilan Friday night and 46 people were arrested, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said Saturday.
It said 40 of the people arrested were illegal Vietnamese immigrants -- 25 men and 15 women -- who were packed into a space that was only 1.2 meters high.
The other six people were the captain and crew of the Wun Shun Man No. 66 (穩順滿66號), a fishing vessel registered in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, the CGA said.
The boat was intercepted 9.2 nautical miles off the coast of Yilan in northeastern Taiwan after the CGA received a tipoff that it was carrying illegal immigrants, said Shen Da-wei (沈大偉), deputy chief of CGA's Northern Coastal Patrol Office.
The captain of the boat, Chen Fu-chung (陳富重), and the crew -- two Taiwanese and three Indonesians – were arrested, along with the 40 illegal immigrants, and turned over to the Yilan Prosecutors Office for investigation into alleged violations of the Immigration Act, Shen said.
The CGA said the illegal Vietnamese immigrants had first entered mainland China, where they boarded the Taiwanese fishing boat and embarked on a trip that took about four days.
According to the CGA, the immigrants were charged US$4,000 to US$6,500 each for the trip on the boat, which it said has a record of cigarette smuggling.
Shen said data shows that Vietnamese immigrants trying to enter Taiwan illegally would usually pool money to buy a boat in mainland China and then abandon the vessel once it reached Taiwan.
He said Saturday's case was an indication that they were changing tactics.
The arrest broke a record as it was the largest number of Vietnamese ever detained in Taiwan for attempting illegal entry, according to the CGA.
(By Wang Chao-yu and Lilian Wu)
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Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) A Taiwan fishing boat carrying illegal Vietnamese immigrants was intercepted off the coast of Yilan Friday night and 46 people were arrested, the Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said Saturday.
It said 40 of the people arrested were illegal Vietnamese immigrants -- 25 men and 15 women -- who were packed into a space that was only 1.2 meters high.
The other six people were the captain and crew of the Wun Shun Man No. 66 (穩順滿66號), a fishing vessel registered in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, the CGA said.
The boat was intercepted 9.2 nautical miles off the coast of Yilan in northeastern Taiwan after the CGA received a tipoff that it was carrying illegal immigrants, said Shen Da-wei (沈大偉), deputy chief of CGA's Northern Coastal Patrol Office.
The captain of the boat, Chen Fu-chung (陳富重), and the crew -- two Taiwanese and three Indonesians – were arrested, along with the 40 illegal immigrants, and turned over to the Yilan Prosecutors Office for investigation into alleged violations of the Immigration Act, Shen said.
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| (Photo provided by a private citizen) |
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| (Photo provided by a private citizen) |
The CGA said the illegal Vietnamese immigrants had first entered mainland China, where they boarded the Taiwanese fishing boat and embarked on a trip that took about four days.
According to the CGA, the immigrants were charged US$4,000 to US$6,500 each for the trip on the boat, which it said has a record of cigarette smuggling.
Shen said data shows that Vietnamese immigrants trying to enter Taiwan illegally would usually pool money to buy a boat in mainland China and then abandon the vessel once it reached Taiwan.
He said Saturday's case was an indication that they were changing tactics.
The arrest broke a record as it was the largest number of Vietnamese ever detained in Taiwan for attempting illegal entry, according to the CGA.
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| (Press conference announcing the arrest; photo provided by a private citizen) |
(By Wang Chao-yu and Lilian Wu)
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