China brings 3,000 suspects from Myanmar Cyber ​​Scam Hub to “No Safe Havens” -Vow back

According to the best Chinese police authority, China has attributed almost 3,000 telecommunications fraud to be suspected from Myanmar from Myanmar since he started a joint procedure with Myanmar and Thailand at the beginning of this year.

During the recent transmission, 2,255 Chinese citizens in Myanmar's region Myawaddy, who held back under police supervision and increased a total of 2,876, were announced on Friday.

Myawaddy in the southeast of Myanmar along the Thai border is a notorious center for large-scale scams, in particular online fraud. Thailand also used fraud gangs as a trade route, whereby the Thai border town of Mae Sot via the Moei River von Myawaddy became an important trade point for the victims, which are to be brought to fraud in Myanmar.

Myanmar sent the suspects to Thailand, from which the Chinese police accompanied them on chartered flights to the eastern cities of Nanjing and Shanghai, the ministry said.

A first batch of 200 suspects was returned to February 20.

In a report on Friday, the mouthpiece of the China People's Communist Party said that the return of the 2,876 suspects would serve as “strong deterrence against foreign criminal groups” that aimed at Chinese.

“The authorities for public security undertake to intensify cooperation with the international law enforcement authorities,” the report said. “You will resolve criminal hubs, make all efforts to grasp suspects and effectively protect the life and property of Chinese citizens.”

The ministry had warned the fraudulent fraudulent fraudulent fraudulent that “no safe ports” for such activities in overseas, while they promised an easier punishment if they returned to China and turned around, the report added.

People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, of which were assumed

China has increased the efforts to act against cross -border telecommunications fraud operations after the rescue mission had become viral for a Chinese actor. The 22 -year -old Wang Xing was involved in the MyAwaddy fraudyndicate in January after being lured to Thailand for an alleged shoot.

Cyber ​​gangs in Myawaddy are notorious to exploit unsuspecting victims from all over the world, often with jobs. They are then often forced to use various misleading tactics to cheat online or telephone victims, also by romantic and investment fraud.

According to the case of Beijing in Wang's case, Thailand has increased his approach to Myanmar fraud centers along its border, reduced electricity and internet services and fuel supply to hop.

The movements praised the Chinese President Xi Jinping when he met the Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in Beijing at the beginning of last month.

Her visit took place days after a high-ranking Chinese safety delegation under the direction of Liu Zhongyi, China's Vice Minister of Public Security, visited the border area of ​​the Thai Myanmar to coordinate the return of the return of Chinese citizens.

In the meantime, Myanmar's civil war has made it difficult to tackle the fraud operations, as there are many in regions that the ruling Junta does not control.

The Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), a militia allied with the Junta, has authority about Myawaddy and another notorious fraud center, Shwe Kokko.

On Friday, a GDF spokesman told Thailand's nation TV that around 8,000 foreigners from over 30 countries from the region had been sent home in the past few weeks.

Most of the people captured by the GDF were Chinese citizens, followed by Vietnamese and Indonesians, said the spokesman.

According to the BGF, 98 percent of these people had come to Shwe Kokko willingly and were not victims of human trafficking. The spokesman said most foreigners had Thai visas and had crossed the border through legitimate routes.

Several high -ranking Thai police officers were subjected to their possible connections to the fraud centers and cross -border human trafficking from their positions.

Previously, the authorities on both sides of the border rejected all allegations of participation in the support of the major criminal organizations. The BGF also repeatedly refused accomplice claims in the fraud processes in its control area.

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