According to a Thai secretary, punishment will only be lifted once Myanmar kicks out the groups.
Discussed: 12 Feb 2025 at 14: 39
According to Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on Wednesday, the government is getting ready for a possible influx of foreigners who have been freed from the clutches of fraud gangs in Myanmar after Thailand has suspended all power.
He claimed that while there were reports of criminals releasing trapped staff and sending them to Thailand, Thailand may not take them all.
” If their native countries did not recognize them, we will not get them”, Mr Phumtham said. Thailand won’t establish a migrant camp for foreigners who leave swindling camps.
” We will do the best we may, but we cannot identify their actions and selections”, he said.
The deputy prime minister, who is also minister of defense, claimed the Thai authorities had previously deployed security forces along the boundary to deal with any potential influx of foreigners leaving the call centers.  ,
Because the Myanmar authorities could not afford to take care of them, Mr. Phumtham claimed he was informed on Tuesday that the Myanmar authorities would give 53 immigrants who had been abused by scams to Tak province’s Phop Phra area on Wednesday.
He said the immigrants included Bangladeshis, Ethiopians, Kenyans and Filipinos. Thai authorities had test their background profiles and interview them about their past experiences or potential involvement in smuggling.
It may take three to four weeks to take them back to their home countries if they weren’t scammers.
He claimed that the Thai authorities had informed Myanmar that it would ease sanctions on the supply of online services, fuel, and electricity if Myanmar demonstrated that it was free of scams.
” We are on the right path. We are certainly concerned about the obstacles to preventing exports from us,” said Mr. Phumtham.