00:00Four Taiwanese citizens have been sentenced for their role in passport smuggling involving
00:04Chinese criminal gangs. The four were convicted of buying Taiwanese passports and selling them
00:10outside the country. Three of them will serve prison time of one to two years,
00:15while the fourth received a suspended sentence. The documents were sold for up to 11,000 U.S.
00:21dollars to Chinese buyers in Europe and Southeast Asia who looked like the passport holders.