Online scam hub buildings demolished, 232 illegal foreign entrants detained

 

The government of Myanmar manages the combined team comprising security forces, administrative bodies and local authorities to raid illegal buildings in Shwe Kokko and KK Park areas where telecom fraud and online gambling activities are operated, and systematically dismantle the confiscated materials and illegal buildings used in the online scams and gambling activities. A total of 341 buildings have been recently demolished in the KK Park area, and the gambling-related materials were burned down.

Yesterday, the combined team dissolved eight more illegal buildings: six two-storey buildings, one three-storey building and one four-storey building used in telecom fraud and online gambling activities in the Myawady-Maethawtalay (KK Park) area. Therefore, a total updated number of 341 buildings out of 635 illegal buildings have been demolished in the KK Park area.

The combined teams conducted security measures in Myawady, and found 232 Chinese nationals – 217 males and 15 females – in four 10-wheeled trucks near Myitta Lin Myaing village on Phalu-Laykaykaw-Myawady road. Moreover, they found eight illegal buildings — five three-storey buildings and three one-storey buildings in Ward 3, and destroyed them so as not to reuse them, and two three-storey buildings and a one-storey building were demolished yesterday.

To prevent future reuse of the materials in the online scams and gambling activities in KK Park and Shwe Kokko areas, the seized materials were incinerated systematically.

Yesterday, the authorities deported 72 individuals: 56 from Indonesia, seven from Ethiopia, four from Uzbekistan, four from Ghana and one from Kyrgyzstan, through the Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Bridge II.

The government considers the eradication of telecom fraud and online gambling crimes as a national responsibility and, to ensure that such activities can no longer operate within Myanmar, will continue its efforts in coordination not only with domestic forces but also with the governments of neighbouring countries.

MNA/KTZH

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