Notorious Cyber Fraud Center Connected with Chinese Mafia Raided

The Burmese military states it has taken control of among the most notorious deception facilities on the boundary with Thai territory, as it retakes crucial territory previously lost in the ongoing internal conflict.

KK Park, located south of the border town of Myawaddy, has been linked with internet scams, cash cleaning and people smuggling for the past five years.

Thousands were attracted to the facility with promises of lucrative employment, and then compelled to operate elaborate frauds, extracting billions of currency from victims across the globe.

The junta, previously tainted by its links to the deception business, now claims it has taken the compound as it increases control around Myawaddy, the main commercial link to Thailand.

In the past few weeks, the armed forces has repelled insurgents in various regions of Myanmar, seeking to maximise the number of locations where it can organize a scheduled election, starting in December.

It still doesn't control large swathes of the state, which has been fragmented by conflict since a military coup in February 2021.

The election has been dismissed as a fake by opposition forces who have sworn to obstruct it in territories they control.

KK Park started with a lease agreement in the first part of 2020 to construct an industrial park between the ethnic organization (KNU), the rebel organization which dominates much of this area, and a obscure Hong Kong listed company, Huanya International.

Researchers suspect there are links between Huanya and a influential China-based mafia figure Wan Kuok Koi, often referred to as Broken Tooth, who has subsequently funded other deception centers on the boundary.

The complex developed rapidly, and is easily observable from the Thai border of the boundary.

Those who succeeded to flee from it recount a harsh regime enforced on the countless people, many from Africa-based countries, who were confined there, compelled to labor extended shifts, with mistreatment and assaults applied on those who were unable to meet quotas.

A declaration by the regime's communications department stated its troops had "cleared" KK Park, releasing in excess of 2,000 employees there and confiscating 30 of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite terminals – extensively utilized by deception hubs on the Thai-Myanmar frontier for digital operations.

The declaration blamed what it called the "extremist" KNU and volunteer people's defence forces, which have been combating the military since the coup, for unlawfully holding the area.

The junta's claim to have shut down this notorious fraud facility is almost certainly targeted toward its key patron, China.

Beijing has been pressing the military and the Thai government to do more to end the illegal businesses operated by China-based syndicates on their shared frontier.

Previously in the year thousands of Chinese laborers were extracted of deception facilities and transported on arranged aircraft back to China, after Thailand restricted supply to electricity and fuel supplies.

But KK Park is merely one of a minimum of 30 similar complexes situated on the boundary.

The majority of these are under the guardianship of local militia groups aligned to the junta, and the majority are currently active, with countless people managing schemes inside them.

In reality, the backing of these militia groups has been crucial in assisting the armed forces push back the KNU and additional rebel groups from land they captured over the previous 24 months.

The junta now dominates nearly all of the route linking Myawaddy to the rest of Myanmar, a target the junta determined before it organizes the opening round of the election in December.

It has captured Lay Kay Kaw, a recent settlement created for the KNU with Japan-based financial support in 2015, a time when there had been hopes for lasting stability in the territory following a national ceasefire.

That constitutes a more important setback to the KNU than the capture of KK Park, from which it did get some revenue, but where most of the monetary gains were directed to military-aligned paramilitary forces.

A well-placed insider has revealed that scam work is persisting in KK Park, and that it is possible the armed forces occupied just a portion of the extensive complex.

The insider also suspects Beijing is providing the Myanmar armed forces lists of Chinese persons it desires removed from the scam complexes, and transported back to stand trial in China, which may clarify why KK Park was attacked.