China, Myanmar und Thailand einigen sich auf die Beseitigung von Telekommunikationsbetrugszentren
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-myanmar-thailand-reach-consensus-eradicate-telecom-fraud-centres-2025-01-21/
China, Myanmar und Thailand einigen sich auf die Beseitigung von Telekommunikationsbetrugszentren
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-myanmar-thailand-reach-consensus-eradicate-telecom-fraud-centres-2025-01-21/
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SS: China, Myanmar, and Thailand agreed to dismantle telecom fraud centers in Myanmar during a meeting in Kunming, China, as reported by *Reuters* on January 21, 2025. Officials from Myanmar, China, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam also pledged to arrest syndicate leaders, shut down fraud operations, and rescue trapped victims, according to China’s national broadcaster CCTV. Beijing has intensified its crackdown on online scams following high-profile cases, including a missing Chinese actor near the Thai-Myanmar border. Last week, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Southeast Asian nations to take firm action against online gambling and telecom fraud. Myanmar has deported over 53,000 Chinese nationals involved in online fraud since 2023 without legal action, citing humanitarian and diplomatic reasons. The Myanmar government reiterated its commitment to eradicating online gambling and called for regional cooperation to eliminate scam networks. (*Reuters*, reported by Xiuhao Chen, Ethan Wang, and Ryan Woo, edited by Bernadette Baum).
Big if true and implemented.
A few years ago, I was travelling and I went through Sinhaloukville in Cambodia – it was absolutely filled with gambling compounds run by Chinese syndicates.
I was told that each one of these had basements in which criminal gangs ran various online and phone scams, mostly aimed at the Chinese market. Allegedly, they operated then with absolute impunity, as the local authorities were deeply in their pockets. They often used slaves they imprisoned in these places, having lured them there with false promises of legitimate jobs.
The gangsters had moved to Cambodia from China, I was told, because the government in China occasionally cracked down on them there – every once in a while the Chinese government authorities would make a big anti-corruption sweep, when the crooks had gone too far and aroused too much resentment, and then no-one was safe, no matter how big or well-connected a gangster they were … so it was safer for them to locate outside of China itself.