Mar 15, 2024 06:50 PM
CHINA
Over 800 Chinese Involved in Cross-Border Cybercrime Repatriated From Myanmar
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Shared border areas of Southeast Asian countries have become hotbeds for Chinese criminal gangs who have been driven out of the mainland following tightened policing. Photo: VCG
More than 800 Chinese nationals involved in gambling and fraud in a Myanmar border town have been repatriated through Thailand as part of a joint three-country operation to tackle cross-border cybercrime, according to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS).
The repatriation — carried out by authorities in China, Thailand and Myanmar — was completed recently after the Chinese nationals at Myawaddy’s scam centers expressed their “voluntary” desire to return home, the ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
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