Southeast Asia correspondent
Thai news PixMore than 250 people from 20 nationalities who worked at the Corridge Fraud Centers in Karenma were released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.
The Thai army was received by workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian countries, and they are evaluated to find out if they were victims of trafficking in human beings.
Last week, Prime Minister Thailand Poleongton Shinovattra met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and promised to close the scam centers that spread along the Thai-Mianum border.
Its government stopped access to power and fuel from the Thai side, as well as strengthened banking and visa rules to try to prevent the scams from using Thailand as a transit country to move workers and cash.
Some opposition deputies in Thailand have been pushing for such actions over the last two years.
Usually, foreign workers are lured into these scams, good salaries, or in some cases, they will think that they will do different work in Thailand, not Myanmar.
Scammers are looking for workers who have skills in the languages of those who are aimed at cyber-fraud tend to be English and Chinese.
They are pressed against the internet activity, ranging from love scams known as “pigs” and kryptus, money laundering and illegal gambling.
Some are ready to do the job, but others are forced to remain, with possible release only if their families pay large ransoms. Some of those who escaped have described torture.
The released foreign workers were transferred to the Democratic Useful Army Karen, DKBA, one of several armed groups controlled by Karen.
These armed groups are accused of allowing the scams to work under their protection and carry wide abuse of trafficking in human trafficking, which are forced to work in the compounds.
The Myanmar government failed to extend its control over the Karen state after independence in 1948.
Thai news PixOn Tuesday, a special investigation department of Thailand, similar to the US FBI, demanded from the arrest warrants of three commanders of another armed group known as Karen’s national army.
The orders included a pit -quota, a military commander Karen, who made a transaction in 2017 with the Chinese construction company Shwe Kokko, a new city, which is believed to be largely funded by fraudsters.
BBC visited Shwe Kokko at the invitation yataiA company that built the city.
Yata says there are no scammers in Shwe Kokko. He put huge billboards across the city, announcing in Chinese, Burmese and English, that forced labor is not allowed, and the “Internet bizes” should leave.
But the locals told us that the scam was still conducting and interviewed by a worker who was busy in one.
As in DKBA, in 1994 he saw that the reader came from the main group Karen, “Kno”, and united in the military in Myanmar.
Under the pressure of Thailand and China, they both saw Chit Thu and DKBA stated that they expel the scam enterprises from their territories.
On Tuesday, the DKBA commander contacted the Parliament MP in Thai to organize the transfer of 260 workers.
They consisted of 221 men and 39 women from Ethiopia, Kenya, Philippines, Malaysia, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Uganda, Laosa, Burundi, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Tanzania, Sir .
