THE government is strictly cracking down on telecom fraud and criminal acts by cooperating with international countries, including neighbouring countries, and systematically deporting foreigners involved in these illegal operations. Authorities transported 456 Chinese nationals via the Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Bridge II and two Thai nationals via the Myanmar-Thailand Bridge I on humanitarian grounds and for the sake of bilateral relations yesterday.
Most of these foreign nationals were persuaded to engage in online gambling, telecom fraud, and other illegal activities in the Myawady-Shwe Kokko, Maehtawthalay, and KK Park areas, having entered the country illegally. According to their confessions, almost all of them entered Myanmar illegally through border crossings with neighbouring countries.
The handover ceremony was attended by Kayin State Security and Border Affairs Minister Colonel Min Thu Kyaw, Deputy Director-General Mr Liu Ning Ning of the Criminal Investigation Department of Public Security Ministry of China, officials from Thailand’s Immigration Department in Tak Province, and other authorities, who transferred the documents to the relevant countries’ officials.
Similarly, yesterday, 250 more foreign nationals who had entered the MyawadyShwe Kokko areas through illegal routes were arrested, and their personal information and records are being collected by joint departmental teams for immediate repatriation to their respective countries.
From 30 January to 7 March, a total of 4,592 foreign nationals who entered Myanmar illegally were identified and detained. Of them, 1,671 were systematically handed over to the relevant countries via Thailand per legal procedures, and the remaining 2,921 foreign nationals are ready for repatriation and are being securely detained.
The government is also intensifying efforts to crack down on online scams and online gambling by cooperating with international countries, including neighbouring countries, especially through the Myanmar-China-Thailand Trilateral Cooperation, and systematically repatriating foreigners involved in these operations.
MNA/MKKS
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