Cross-border Crime · Full chronicle and history

On October 12, Indonesian immigration authorities detained 6 Chinese nationals at a residence in Semarang, seizing 50 mobile phones, 42 iPads and 3 laptops. They subsequently tracked three hotels and Semarang airport, detaining a total of 24 Chinese nationals in Semarang and Yogyakarta. One of them was identified by the SOI system at the airport and taken away, and is currently under further investigation.

Taiwan's Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office reported on September 9th that they had dismantled an organ trafficking ring composed of seven adult defendants. The group recruited victims online, planning to control them and smuggle them to mainland China for organ harvesting. Those involved have been investigated and dealt with according to law.

The Taiwan Keelung District Prosecutors Office announced the indictment of 9 criminal suspects involved in smuggling servers manufactured by Supermicro and embedded with NVIDIA high-end AI chips to China via Indonesia and Japan.

FBI Director Patel listed law enforcement cooperation results on the X platform, including the arrest of 300 criminals, the seizure of $300 million in assets, and the advancement of US-China law enforcement cooperation.

CCTV cited data from the Ministry of Public Security stating that the number of criminal cases nationwide decreased by 16.1% year-on-year from January to May. However, the phenomenon of multiple regions investing financially in expanding detention centers and prisons has led to external doubts about the real public security situation.

A Thai police investigation found that criminal groups have bribed hospital staff and household registration officials and recruited Thai men to act as fake fathers, helping Chinese families obtain Thai nationality for their children; as of the report, 27 people had been arrested.

Keelung District Prosecutors Office applied for detention of persons involved in the investigation of a high‑end AI server transport case on suspicion of forging documents and breach of trust.

Liu Ren, formerly president of the Cambodia Anhui Chamber of Commerce, has been formally handed over to Chinese police by Cambodian law enforcement and escorted back to China to stand trial on suspicion of multiple serious transnational crimes, including cross-border money laundering, telecom and online fraud, and illegal human trafficking.

On June 27, 2026, Taiwan's The Reporter published an in-depth investigation revealing that intermediaries are recruiting young Taiwanese women with high 'nutritional fees' to travel to mainland China for illegal egg retrieval in private residences or underground clinics, where they face insufficient anesthesia and serious health risks.

In 2025, Hong Kong recorded a total of 89,137 criminal cases, 50% more than the 59,225 cases in 2019. Among them, 43,212 were fraud cases, accounting for half, with victims defrauded of HK$8.1 billion. Fraud cases have multiplied fivefold from fewer than 10,000 in 2019.

In 2025, the Guangzhou Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau deployed 265 police officers to carry out simultaneous raids in Guangzhou, Foshan and Shenzhen, dismantling 2 gangs smuggling blood samples of pregnant women. In total, over 100,000 blood samples were illegally smuggled out of the country, generating illegal profits of more than 30 million yuan, covering 23 provinces across the country.

Hui Jian published a post on a WeChat public account, accusing Liu Ren, president of the Cambodian Anhui Chamber of Commerce, of violent loan-sharking in casinos, beating a renovation boss to death, running telecom fraud parks, and armed transnational crime.

Data shows that in 2024, the annual number of criminal cases filed by Chinese police (Public Security) exceeded 10 million, a sharp increase compared to 2000, with the majority of short-sentence cases involving various "pocket crimes."