As authorities intensify their crackdown on transnational crime syndicates close to the Thai border, according to the Royal Thai Police (RTP ) estimate that 10, 000 foreign nationals will be saved from call scam centers in Myanmar.
According to Pol Gen Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, director of the RTP’s Anti-Human Trafficking Center and Police Cyber Taskforce, Thai authorities are talking with their Myanmar counterparts about the National Referral Mechanism ( NRM ) framework, which aims to track down and bring in victims of human trafficking and call center scams.
He claimed that Thailand acts as a coach just, and that complaints may be made to Myanmar authorities if they are flagged as victims and want to file legal action against traffickers or scammers.
He addressed issues relating to call center scams and human trafficking close to the Thai border at a conference held at the RTP offices in Bangkok on Monday. Representatives from foreign diplomats, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and the US Embassy’s Homeland Security Investigations company were present.
Attendees at the conference shared information, according to Pol Gen Thatchai, to help determine the locations of the scammers and separate victims from the perpetrators.
He continued, adding that the RTP has established an online software to collaborate with offices in battling scammers and smugglers.
However, Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Monday that the appearance and actions of China’s Assistant Minister for Public Security, Liu Zhongyi, are part of a three-country joint functioning against Chinese call-scam groups based in Myanmar.
Mr. Phumtham reacted to censure that China was evading Thai authorities by bringing back Chinese who had been duped into working for gangsters in Myanmar’s near the Thai borders.
” Thailand, Myanmar and China have been collaborating on this subject for two times”, said Mr Phumtham, who also serves as deputy prime minister.
He claimed that Mr. Liu and the Myanmar’s home affairs minister had spoken about the joint procedure and that they would meet again on Wednesday to discuss how it was proceeding.
A group of Chinese who were rescued from Myanmar’s call-scam centers may be transported to Thailand and then to China, he said. But first, they will have to complete techniques in Myanmar.
He claimed that group members may be disbanded and detained while the activity was taking place.
According to Mr. Phumtham, the anti-scam activity began with the government of Myanmar and ethnic groups being forced to shut down the country’s scam gangs, and it was successful.
In Kanchanaburi, sources said that personnel from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army ( DKBA ) arrested 86 Chinese people suspected of operating call scams in Payathonzu township, opposite tambon Nong Lu of Sangkhla Buri district, on Sunday.
A location where an online gaming business was active was where they were detained.
According to sources, the procedure was a part of the DKBA’s work to get rid of scams in its place by the end of this month.
Thai safety members observed the procedure.