Chinese fraud gangs in eastern Myanmar’s Kayin state are moving the foreign trafficking victims they use to run their operations away from a town on the Thai border to a casino in an ethnic rebel-controlled enclave amid rumors of a coming crackdown by authorities, according to casino workers. Scam centers have plagued the border areas of Thailand, Myanmar and China as nationals from all three countries are tricked into – and subsequently enslaved in – online fraud. The businesses typically force trafficked workers to call people across Asia and convince them to deposit money in fake or fraudulent investments. Tens of thousands involved in the criminal schemes were deported from Myanmar in 2023 by both junta and rebel army officials . Many are linked to forced labor, human trafficking and money laundering, which proliferated after COVID-19 shut down casinos across Southeast Asia. In January, following arrests and raids of money-laundering ...
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