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In
November 2011, the former director of the Taipei Economic
and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri pled guilty
to labor fraud in the United States for subjecting her two
domestic workers to conditions of forced labor, including
withholding their passports and paying inadequate wages. She
spent approximately four months in jail in the United States
before being deported to Taiwan in February 2012, where she
was impeached by Taiwan authorities in April 2012; however,
a final decision regarding her punishment was pending at the
close of the reporting period. She has not yet been sentenced
as the investigation against her in Taiwan remained ongoing as
of April 2012. With that exception, Taiwan authorities did not
report any other investigations, prosecutions, convictions, or
sentences of officials of the Taiwan authorities for complicity
in trafficking offenses during the reporting period.