Indonesia arrests suspect wanted by China for running $14 billion investment scam

JAKARTA, Indonesia — 

Indonesia's migration officers connected the tourer land of Bali person arrested a Chinese fishy sought by Beijing for helping tally implicit $14 cardinal concern scam to clients successful China, officials said Thursday.

The 39-year-old man, identified lone by his initial, LQ, was arrested connected October 1, erstwhile an migration auto-gate successful Bali's Ngurah Rai planetary airdrome denied him departure for Singapore.

The biometric information successful the machine registry astatine the airdrome identified him arsenic a fishy wanted by Beijing, which led to his arrest, according to Silmy Karim, the migration main astatine Indonesia's instrumentality and quality rights ministry. He had been listed connected an Interpol warrant since precocious September.

The fishy archetypal arrived successful Bali from Singapore with a Turkish passport arsenic Joe Lin connected September 26, conscionable a time earlier Interpol released a alleged Red Notice for him, a petition to instrumentality enforcement agencies worldwide to detain oregon apprehension a fishy wanted by a circumstantial country.

Indonesian authorities brought the suspect, wearing a detainee's orangish garment and a facemask, earlier reporters to a quality league Thursday successful the superior of Jakarta. The fishy did not marque immoderate statements and was not asked immoderate questions.

"He was incorrect to usage Indonesia arsenic a transit country, fto unsocial arsenic a destination state to hide," said Karim, lauding technological advances and practice betwixt migration and the nationalist police.

Krishna Murti, the main of the planetary part of the National Police, said the determination to deport oregon to extradite the fishy to China volition instrumentality immoderate time. Indonesia needs to corroborate whether helium has genuinely go a Turkish national successful the meantime oregon if helium utilized a fake passport to participate Indonesia.

"We person to respect the suspect's rights," Murti said, adding that the fishy has not committed immoderate violations wrong Indonesia.

The antheral was named arsenic a fishy by Beijing, which requested the Red Notice from Interpol, aft helium allegedly collected much than 100 cardinal Chinese Yuan ($14 billion) from much than 50,000 radical successful a Ponzi scheme.

Indonesia, an archipelago federation connected the crossroads betwixt Asia and the South Pacific, is charismatic to local, determination and planetary organized transgression due to the fact that of its geographical determination and its multi-cultural society.

Last month, Indonesia arrested Alice Guo, a fugitive erstwhile politician of a municipality successful the Philippines accused of having links to Chinese transgression syndicates. She has since been deported to the Philippines.

In June, Chaowalit Thongduang, 1 of Thailand's astir wanted fugitives, was escorted backmost to Thailand connected a Thai aerial unit level aft being arrested successful Bali pursuing months connected the tally successful transportation with respective killings and cause trafficking charges successful his homeland.