Homeland Security Investigations agents seized 30 kilograms of amphetamines from inside a 3D printer.

(Photographed by reporter Qiu Junfu)

[Reporter Qiu Junfu/Taipei Report] Police from Taiwan, Australia and the United States cooperated to uncover the case of Chinese transnational drug traffickers attempting to smuggle safe drugs from the United States to Australia. A milestone in the history of criminal judicial mutual assistance between Taiwan and the United States, creating a precedent for our side to send personnel abroad (the United States) to collect evidence.

After the International Division of the Criminal Bureau jointly cracked this case in Taiwan and the United States, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the follow-up judicial investigation process, last menstruation, the Ministry of Justice, in accordance with the "Mutual Criminal Judicial Assistance Agreement between the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States and the American Institute in Taiwan" Contacted by the U.S. Department of Justice, under the active contact of the liaison officer of the International Division in the West of the United States and the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the relevant judicial documents were successfully obtained in a short period of time for our investigation and use, and the Criminal Bureau and the Shilin District Prosecutor’s Office were arranged. Send personnel to the United States to take samples from the seized safe and poison and return them to Taiwan for inspection.

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The International Division stated that after the arrest of the main suspect Zhou Yankai on July 26 this year, the prosecution immediately issued a charge and was allowed to actively pursue the accomplices. In the second wave of investigations, suspect Lin was arrested in Taoyuan City, while suspect Chen was in the United States, and the US police are continuing to pursue him.

In the case, the US HSI inspected the seized drugs and confirmed that they were drugs. However, due to the issue of the US judicial order, the drug test report has to wait for at least half a year, but the prosecutor and the police need to have a drug identification report. It affects the timeliness of subsequent judicial investigation procedures, and the inspection of HSI only needs to collect one package from the five packages for inspection, while in my country, each package needs to be tested, and the inspection methods of the two sides are also different.

Through the intensive mutual legal assistance between Taiwan and the United States, the prosecutors and police units have successfully allowed us to send personnel to the United States to directly sample the seized drugs and return to Taiwan for inspection, so that the case can be successfully investigated and prosecuted.

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