Eight arrested in multimillion dollar telecom fraud case

Police in Taiwan have broken up a telecom fraud case in which a university professor on the mainland was scammed out of around 18 million yuan ($2.6 million), according to a report from China News Service.

The report said Taiwan police arrested eight people who were suspected members of a fraud ring in Taiwan on Wednesday.

The report cited other Taiwan media saying the professor, surnamed Huang, from prestigious Tsinghua University, reported to police in Beijing in July that she was scammed out of 17.6 million yuan by a group of phone swindlers disguised as officials from law enforcement and judicial departments.