Tortured Kenyan flees Myanmar call scam gang into Thailand

A tortured Kenyan man is seen at the Phop Phra police station in Phop Phra district of Tak on Sunday. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)
On Sunday, a abused Kenyan person is spotted at the Tak Phop Phra police station. ( Photo: Assawin Pinitwong )

Sudah: A Kenyan person crossed the Thai-Myanmar border to get help in Phop Phra region, saying he was among about 1, 000 individuals who were tortured unless they worked for a Chinese-led fraud group.

The 30-year-old gentleman limped to a store in Phop Phra area on Sunday night. The man who was covered in wounds that requested that the shopkeeper take him to the police.

The person who was not identified claimed to have fled a “scammer town” in Myawaddy, traveled for more than ten kilometers, crossed a rock, and traveled for more than ten kilometers to the Thai border, and then fled.

The Kenyan claimed that because a high-income restaurant in Thailand had been invited by a Kenyan job position company on October 5, 2013, he had arrived in Thailand on October 5.

At Suvarnabhumi airports, an adviser received him and two additional Kenyans. They were taken to the Tak Mae Sot region and led to a call-scam group, which made them work as cryptocurrency investment scammers.

The victim claimed that hot wax was applied to his wounds after being struck with a stun stick and ball pitcher when he refused to be a scam.

His injured foot swelled from running outdoors away from the scam center on Sunday.

He said there were about 1, 000 persons at the hoax heart including Bangladeshi, Thai, African, Muslim and Sri Lankan citizens. At the hospital, which was run by Chinese citizens, were 23 Kenyans.