Friday, August 15, 2003
Police authorities conducted a raid on electronics company after the request from U.S. judicial authorities claimed that missing Intel's CPUs bound to United Kingdom found Taiwan's internet website.
According to Taipei chief prosecutor Chen Hung Ta, Intel Corp. exported the batch of 50,000 CPUs worth more than US$10 million from New York to London in July. The customer in UK went Heathrow Airport to claim the Intel's CPUs and later found that the whole batch of CPUs was stolen.
U.S. judicial authorities intercepted certain information and asked the U.S. Homeland Security Department to send its agents stationed in Hong Kong to Taipei to look into the case last week when a Taiwanese broker trying to sell a batch of CPUs to Hewlett-Packard (HP). However, HP turned down the offer due to unclear origin after HP suspecting that it may be the stolen goods.
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau accepted the U.S. request to investigate the case. After collecting initial evidence, a Taipei prosecutor headed a team of police officers that raided the electronics company city and the residence of the company's chairman. Investigators confiscated a batch of computerized accounting books and other files. However, they failed to find any stolen Intel CPUs.
US authorities also found some of the parts for sale on the Internet and discovered the seller was based in Taiwan. A local TV station recorded the police raid on the suspected company, CNS Micro Technology. The footage televised on the local cable TV showing the prosecutor carrying out computers and certain boxes out of the office.
By: DocMemory
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