Infamous Cyber Scam Complex Associated with Chinese Underworld Stormed

The Myanmar military announces it has captured among the most infamous deception compounds on the boundary with Thai territory, as it regains key land lost in the ongoing domestic strife.

KK Park, south of the frontier settlement of Myawaddy, has been linked with internet scams, cash cleaning and human trafficking for the past five years.

Thousands were attracted to the compound with guarantees of well-paid positions, and then forced to run complex frauds, stealing billions of dollars from targets throughout the world.

The military, long tainted by its connections to the fraud operations, now says it has seized the facility as it increases authority around Myawaddy, the main economic link to Thailand.

In the past few weeks, the military has pushed back opposition fighters in various areas of Myanmar, seeking to maximise the number of locations where it can conduct a proposed poll, commencing in December.

It currently doesn't control significant territories of the country, which has been fragmented by conflict since a government overthrow in February 2021.

The poll has been dismissed as a fraud by opposition forces who have pledged to prevent it in territories they occupy.

KK Park began with a lease agreement in early 2020 to build an business complex between the Karen National Union (KNU), the ethnic insurgent group which governs much of this area, and a little-known Hong Kong listed firm, Huanya International.

Researchers suspect there are relationships between Huanya and a prominent China-based mafia figure Wan Kuok Koi, better known as Broken Tooth, who has subsequently invested in further fraud hubs on the frontier.

The complex grew swiftly, and is easily visible from the Thai side of the border.

Those who were able to flee from it recount a harsh system enforced on the numerous individuals, numerous from African nations, who were detained there, forced to operate extended shifts, with mistreatment and beatings applied on those who failed to meet objectives.

A declaration by the regime's official media said its troops had "cleared" KK Park, freeing over 2,000 laborers there and seizing 30 of Elon Musk's Starlink internet equipment – extensively utilized by fraud facilities on the Thai-Myanmar frontier for online operations.

The statement blamed what it termed the "extremist" ethnic organization and volunteer people's defence forces, which have been opposing the regime since the takeover, for wrongfully controlling the territory.

The junta's claim to have closed this notorious deception facility is almost certainly directed at its key patron, China.

Beijing has been pressing the regime and the Thai authorities to do more to stop the criminal operations managed by Asian organizations on their shared frontier.

Previously in the year thousands of China-based workers were extracted of deception compounds and transported on chartered planes back to China, after Thailand eliminated access to energy and energy provisions.

But KK Park is just a single of a minimum of 30 comparable facilities situated on the frontier.

A large portion of these are under the protection of local militia groups aligned to the regime, and most are presently active, with tens of thousands managing schemes inside them.

In fact, the backing of these militia groups has been essential in enabling the junta drive back the KNU and additional rebel groups from territory they seized over the recent two-year period.

The military now controls the vast majority of the route connecting Myawaddy to the rest of Myanmar, a goal the junta set itself before it conducts the initial phase of the poll in December.

It has captured Lay Kay Kaw, a recent settlement created for the KNU with Asian investment in 2015, a era when there had been hopes for permanent tranquility in the territory following a national peace agreement.

That forms a more important blow to the KNU than the seizure of KK Park, from which it received some income, but where the bulk of the financial benefits ended up with pro-junta paramilitary forces.

A informed source has revealed that scam operations is ongoing in KK Park, and that it is likely the military took control of only part of the extensive facility.

The source also believes Beijing is supplying the Myanmar armed forces inventories of Asian people it wants removed from the deception facilities, and returned back to stand trial in China, which may explain why KK Park was raided.