First Chinese scam-centre returnees fly home from Thailand

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Criminals and patients being brought up from Myanmar, with 600 Foreign expected to travel home by Saturday

Discussed: 20 Feb 2025 at 11: 25

UPDATED: 20 Feb 2025 at 12: 43

A bus carrying 50 Chinese nationals arrives at the Mae Sot border checkpoint in Tak province on Thursday morning. Four repatriation flights arranged by the Chinese government for 200 people were scheduled to take off from Mae Sot airport by day’s end. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)
On Thursday night, a van carrying 50 Chinese citizens arrives at the Mae Sot border crossing point in Tak state. By week close, four resettlement flights organized by the Chinese authorities for 200 people were scheduled to depart from Mae Sot aircraft. ( Photo: Assawin Pinitwong )

TAK- On Thursday morning, the second class of 50 Chinese people who had flown home from Myanmar-based fraud centers were taken house from Mae Sot, with another 150 compatriots scheduled to follow by the end of the day.

The 50 Chinese made their way from Myawaddy to the Thai border area on two buses that were escorted by authorities. Around 9am, men from the Karen Border Guard Force delivered the party to the Next Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge over the Moei River.

After being taken into custody by one man at Mae Sot Border Checkpoint 2, each Chinese federal was finally taken back by the Chinese government for the first repatriation trip sponsored by the Chinese government leaving Mae Sot Airport.

Investigators were not allowed in the border station. The aircraft took off at 11.30am, an AFP blogger reported. Four Chinese relocation planes, each carrying 50 folks plus authorities, were scheduled for Thursday. &nbsp,

On 16 planes from Thursday through Saturday, the Chinese government has flown China Southern Airlines flights to return 600 of its citizens from Mae Sot. The relocation of foreigners of various nationalities is anticipated to follow.

After the severe stress from the Taiwanese government and Thailand’s expulsion of power, oil, and online services in the areas early this month, thousands of people are expected to be released from the Myawaddy-based scam centers.

Many of the call-center locations are run by Taiwanese criminal gangs, who frequently claim they were trafficked and forced to work on internet schemes swindling people around the world.

Up to ten thousand people are being deported as a result of the Karen Border Guard Force’s involvement with the Myanmar junta, according to a statement from the army that runs its borders patrols.

Returnees are expected to be accompanied by Chinese security officers, and it is unknown what will happen to them once more in China. How many of the victims of smuggling and how many were inclined individuals in the con artists ‘ schemes are unknown.

Liu Zhongyi, China’s associate minister for public security, has made several trips to Thailand in the wake of this report, coordinating the removal of the country’s shady smuggling centers with Thai and Myanmar specialists, and overseeing the relocation of Chinese residents.

On Thursday, a Taiwanese Southern Airlines plane makes its first of 16 scheduled repatriation flights to Tak's Mae Sot airport for 600 Chinese citizens over the next three weeks. ( Photo: Assawin Pinitwong )

On Thursday, a Taiwanese Southern Airlines plane makes its first of 16 scheduled repatriation flights to Tak’s Mae Sot airport for 600 Chinese citizens over the next three weeks. ( Photo: Assawin Pinitwong )