Police to partner Taiwan mission to tackle transnational fraud
The Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) has engaged the Taiwan Head of Mission in Nigeria as part of efforts to strengthen collaboration against transnational financial crimes. The PSFU spokesperson, DSP
The Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) has engaged the Taiwan Head of Mission in Nigeria as part of efforts to strengthen collaboration against transnational financial crimes.
The PSFU spokesperson, DSP Ovie Ewhubare, made this known after the Commissioner of Police, PSFU, Eloho Okpoziakpo, held a strategic meeting with the Head of Mission at the Taipei Trade Office, Andy Yih-Ping Liu, in Lagos to deepen cooperation in tackling cross-border fraud.
The meeting highlighted the growing need for international collaboration to combat transnational crime, especially as Taiwan’s expanding investment footprint attracts increasingly sophisticated fraud syndicates.
Discussions at the meeting focused on strengthening intelligence sharing, improving investigative coordination, and developing joint strategies to combat cross-border financial crimes.
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Liu expressed appreciation for the initiative and reaffirmed Taiwan’s readiness to work closely with the unit through information exchange, capacity building, and mutual support to prevent and investigate fraud-related offenses.
Speaking during the meeting, Okpoziakpo stressed that global partnerships are critical in addressing the evolving nature of financial crimes.
The CP noted that no single country can effectively tackle transnational fraud alone.
The commissioner reiterated the PSFU’s commitment to proactive investigations and sustained collaboration with international partners to dismantle criminal networks and protect legitimate investments.
Director of Taiwan's International Criminal Affairs Division, Criminal Investigation Bureau, National Police Agency, Edward Lee, recently underscored the need for countries to partner to tackle local and foreign cybercrime and other crimes.
Lee, who spoke with visiting Nigerian journalists in Taiwan, said nations should now focus on how to cooperate to tackle the dangerous dimensions of activities by hackers and cyber criminals from North Korea, Russia, China, and other parts of the world.
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According to him, despite his country not being an official member of INTERPOL, he, his agency, and its few officers share intelligence and sensitive information with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and similar agencies from Japan, the European Union, Asia, Africa, and others.
He explained that countries must work together quickly to tackle criminals whose aims are borderless and who steal billions in cash, assets, infrastructure, critical and sensitive intelligence, and information, thereby putting security and humans in danger.
He asserted that his agency and other sister agencies engage in no rivalry, but cooperate seamlessly to protect national and other countries' security.
On whether there is political interference in his agency and sister agencies' operations, Lee explained that such has no place in their working framework for decades.
He said the prosecution office periodically meets with other agencies and officers for efficient and effective service delivery.
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Lee's submissions also confirmed the assertions of the top management of CHT Security and TRENDAI - two private security firms that said cybersecurity is a global issue that their clients and home government, along with other countries, are putting 24-hour operations toward tackling because criminals are becoming dangerous.
During various engagements with the Nigerian delegation, the firms also confirmed that cybersecurity measures and solutions are necessary for a safer economy, asset protection, and infrastructure protection.
According to them, they have hundreds of thousands of clients, thousands of employees across many countries, including Africa, and are protecting their assets.
