PUBLISHED: 23 Mar 2024 at 19:32
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin reported on Sunday that Thailand had recently assisted in the exchange of some 900 Chinese citizens who had been stranded in scam centers in a Burmese border town again to China.
According to the United Nations, Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, has become a hotspot for virtual fraud, with hundreds of thousands of people being forced to work in con factories and other illegal activities.
The Chinese nationals were transported from Myanmar’s bond city Myawaddy to an airport in Mae Sot, where they were then flown to Chinese planes, according to Thai authorities, which started next Thursday and was completed on Saturday.
According to Prime Minister Srettha,” This was a mutual volunteer operation between three countries, China, Myanmar, and Thailand.”
According to Srettha,” the process was done deliberately, based on charitable concepts, it was not forced,” adding that Thailand had assisted in the facilitation of the move to the planes at Mae Sot.
According to deputy police chief Surachate Hakparn, the procedure involved 15 planes flying back to China over the course of three weeks.
A Reuters request for comment was not immediately addressed by the Chinese international government. Additionally, Myanmar’s defense director did not respond to a request for comment.
In a mutual effort to combat online scams in Myanmar, Myanmar’s government jointly handed over 31, 000 telecoms fraud suspects to China in November.
More than 200 Thais were trapped in fighting between Myanmar’s defense and military ethnic-minority groups in Laukkaing in Myanmar’s north Shan State, both victims and those connected to telecoms scam criminals.  ,