Mainland sends eight suspects back to Taiwan

Eight criminal suspects were returned to Taiwan by the Fujian Provincial Red Cross Society in Fuzhou Wednesday.

"Yang Huaming, secretary general of the provincial Red Cross Society, left for Mazu in Taiwan on Wednesday to hand over the suspects to the Taiwan Red Cross Society," sources from Fujian said.

Five of the eight were arrested in south China's Guangdong Province for alleged involvement in IT fraud, according to the sources.

Two were arrested in Xiamen, Fujian, for illegally entering the mainland and one was convicted of organizing criminal gangs on the mainland, the sources said, without elaborating.

Hand over protocols between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan are based on the Jinmen Agreement, signed in September 1990 between Red Cross organizations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The two sides have returned to each other nearly 37,790 criminals, criminal suspects and people guilty of illegal entry since 1990.

Source: Xinhua