Indonesia deports Chinese, Taiwanese scam suspects to China

Indonesia on Thursday extradited more than 140 Chinese and Taiwanese to China, where they are needed for mimicking police and misleading specialists and lawmakers out of a few hundred million dollars.

The 121 Chinese and 22 Taiwanese were given over to Chinese police and left from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on two flights, movement office representative Agung Sampurno said.

"They are a piece of trans-national sorted out wrongdoing who came to Indonesia as sightseers," Sampurno said.

Indonesian police got the for the most part male suspects in an end of the week attack of houses in Jakarta, Surabaya and the resort island of Bali. Two endured gunfire wounds to their legs while endeavoring to get away. The captures took after a tip from Chinese police.

National police representative Rikwanto said the con artists had worked from Indonesia since before the end of last year to abstain from being found at home and the trick had earned about $450 million.