Minister flies in to completely 600 immigrants
By sending Liu Zhongyi, China’s associate minister of public security, to the area to seek assistance in stepping up the crackdown, China has intensified efforts to stop international scam gangs along the Thai-Myanmar border.
Before flying by air to the Mae Sot city of Tak and crossing the border into Myawaddy, Mr. Liu, a former police officer, made his way to the Don Mueang airports along with about 26 another Chinese delegations on Sunday.
A second shipment of around 600 Foreign citizens who were rescued from con groups that operated in Myawaddy before a new series of attacks is expected to return home.
According to a cause close to the state, the Chinese citizens may be flown up to China on licensed flights.
A nearby Myanmar established in Myawaddy, who preferred not to be named, however, said a combined protection army had rescued 731 individuals from eight countries, including Thailand, in the new raids.
The source don’t affirm the number of Thais rescued, but did note that those freed came from eight countries– China, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Thailand– and were now being screened to separate legitimate human trafficking victims from those who were freely working in the call centre boiler rooms.
He claimed that the Karen Border Guard Force, a branch of the Myanmar junta, had supported the assault, which started next Tuesday and involved 69 arrests.
As the procedures continued on Friday, another 200 people were detained, and 469 more were rounded up on Saturday.
Rangsiman Rome, a People’s Party record MP, in his power as chairman of the House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs, National Strategy and Reform, on Sunday led the commission on a visit to Mae Sot.
He discussed the frontier position with the Naresuan defense commission, which is responsible for guarding the 993km-long Thai-Myanmar borders.
” The call center scam criminals have rapidly expanded and seriously harmed Thailand’s business and tourism. This is a battle against one of the nation’s largest crime cartels”, said Mr Rangsiman, pledging complete support from the politicians.
Following the Thai administration’s decision to break electricity, gas and computer to the border region in Myanmar where the gangs are based, gangs have switched to solar power and satellite internet connections, said Mr Rangsiman.
The MP added that he thinks Shwe Kokko’s central scam center, Myawaddy, and the BGF, are both under control.
According to Mr. Rangsiman, citing information he has gathered from local sources, many of the syndicate’s financiers who were detained in Myawaddy have fled and are now residing in Hpa-an, the capital and largest city of Kayin State ( Karen State ).
As part of a crackdown on the illicit compounds, the BGF announced earlier on Saturday that it was preparing to deport 10, 000 people to Thailand from the region it controls as part of a crackdown on the illegal substances.
Scam properties have mushroom rooms in Myanmar’s borderlands and are run by foreigners who are frequently trafficked and forced to work, swindling people around the world in an industry analysts claim is worth billions of dollars.
Major Naing Maung Zaw, a spokesman for the BGF, told AFP on Saturday that” we have pledged to exile all those who conduct fraud on our soil.”
According to Maj Naing Maung Zaw, the BGF has already sent 61 people across a border bridge to Thailand and is preparing to hand over” about 500 more of many different nationalities.”