Police in three Tak state districts were fired because they failed to stop con artistry-related scams.
PUBLISHED: 29 Jan 2025 at 19: 01
On Wednesday, Chinese and Indian security forces conducted a border patrol in Tak state to find solutions to assist Myawaddy-based scam gang victims.
The municipal authorities captain removed the police chiefs from their posts in Tak’s Mae Sot, Phop Phra, and Mae Ramat because they had failed to stop the flow of people and illegal activity in the boundary province.
Liu Zhongyi, a Taiwanese associate minister of public safety, led a group that arrived at the Mae Sot airports on Wednesday. Before departing for Wang Kaew community in tambon Mae Pa, the municipal police chief met them and met with them. They then visited the borders and were met by Pol Maj Gen Samrit Amkamol.
The group wanted to see Myawaddy city, where Chinese citizens have invested large sums of money in casino and entertainment complexes, from a different angle. Then they traveled to the Mae Kumai Thasung Village Moo 9 in the Mae Sot city, which has a nice watch of the KK Park game in Myanmar.
After being informed of the details of Chinese investments in the area, Mr. Liu and his team headed back to Mae Sot for a meeting with Thai authorities at the Tak emigration station.
After Thai and Chinese officials agreed to establish a coordinating center in Thailand to combat human trafficking, the Taiwanese delegation’s visit was intended to find solutions to the roughly 160 Chinese people who are known to be sufferers of fraud gangs in Myawaddy.
The associate minister of China, Pol Maj Gen Samrit, and officials from Myanmar who are also involved in the discussions wanted to talk about mutual cooperation to ensure protection for tourists, according to Pol Maj Gen Samrit.
He stated that strict measures would remain, including checking accommodations and screening foreign nationals to stop human trafficking and frauds.
The Chinese group apparently went through with the new tourist information center at Mae Sot Airport to check and inform travelers against joining human trafficking criminals and being conned into working as con artists in Myanmar.
Thailand has long been a target for fraud gangs, but recently a well-known case involving a Chinese actor and potential for a significant strike to tourism prompted Thai authorities to take action.
According to local media reports, Chinese officials had made 20 detention in connection with Wang Xing’s rescue earlier this month.
Chinese officials have identified 36 big Chinese call-centre fraud groups employing more than 100, 000 visitors to defraud their sufferers, most of them Chinese, of cash.
Pol Lt Gen Trairong Phiwpan, the director of the officers Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, and the Chinese associate minister discussed the details with him on Monday at a meeting at the CCIB in Nonthaburi.