A 17-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of withdrawing NT$2.08 million (US$73,992) from the account of her boyfriend’s grandmother while staying at his home last month.
The girl admitted to stealing the account passbook and personal seal of her boyfriend’s grandmother and had, over about three weeks, largely drained the account, Lee Jui-fang (李瑞芳), chief of the Kaohsiung Police Department’s Sanmin Second Precinct, said on Saturday.
Lee quoted the girl’s mother as saying that she had been suspicious about her daughter’s sudden increase in spending after she returned home to Tainan, but had not been aware of the source of the