Renowned Digital Fraud Complex Linked with China-based Mafia Targeted

The Myanmar junta states it has captured among the most well-known fraud facilities on the border with Thailand, as it regains important land lost in the current domestic strife.

KK Park, positioned south of the boundary community of Myawaddy, has been associated with digital deception, cash cleaning and people smuggling for the past five years.

Thousands were attracted to the complex with promises of high-income jobs, and then coerced to manage complex scams, extracting billions of dollars from victims across the globe.

The armed forces, previously stained by its associations to the scam industry, now says it has seized the facility as it expands control around Myawaddy, the main commercial link to Thailand.

In the previous month, the junta has pushed back rebels in several areas of Myanmar, attempting to maximise the number of locations where it can hold a scheduled poll, commencing in December.

It still doesn't control large swathes of the country, which has been torn apart by fighting since a armed takeover in February 2021.

The vote has been disregarded as a fraud by anti-junta elements who have sworn to block it in areas they hold.

KK Park started with a lease agreement in early 2020 to build an business complex between the ethnic organization (KNU), the ethnic insurgent organization which dominates much of this region, and a little-known HK publicly traded firm, Huanya International.

Investigators suspect there are links between Huanya and a prominent China-based criminal figure Wan Kuok Koi, often referred to as Broken Tooth, who has later invested in further scam hubs on the border.

The facility developed swiftly, and is clearly visible from the Thai border of the boundary.

Those who were able to escape from it detail a violent environment imposed on the countless people, numerous from continental African countries, who were confined there, compelled to labor extended shifts, with abuse and assaults administered on those who did not manage to reach quotas.

A declaration by the military's communications department said its personnel had "cleared" KK Park, releasing over 2,000 employees there and taking possession of 30 of Elon Musk's Starlink internet equipment – widely used by deception facilities on the Thai-Myanmar boundary for online functions.

The declaration accused what it termed the "militant" Karen National Union and civilian militia units, which have been opposing the regime since the overthrow, for illegally holding the region.

The junta's declaration to have shut down this well-known scam facility is probably directed at its main patron, China.

Beijing has been urging the regime and the Thailand authorities to do more to end the illegal activities run by Asian organizations on their border.

In previous months numerous of Asian employees were taken out of deception compounds and sent on chartered planes back to China, after Thai authorities cut access to power and energy provisions.

But KK Park is just a single of a minimum of 30 analogous complexes situated on the border.

A large portion of these are under the control of ethnic Karen paramilitary forces allied to the junta, and many are presently functioning, with countless people operating frauds inside them.

In fact, the assistance of these paramilitary forces has been critical in helping the military drive back the KNU and further resistance factions from territory they captured over the recent two-year period.

The junta now dominates almost all of the road linking Myawaddy to the remainder of Myanmar, a objective the military established before it holds the initial phase of the election in December.

It has captured Lay Kay Kaw, a new town created for the KNU with Japan-based funding in 2015, a time when there had been aspirations for permanent peace in the Karen region following a nationwide truce.

That represents a more important defeat to the KNU than the takeover of KK Park, from which it received limited funds, but where the majority of the financial gains were directed to pro-junta militias.

A informed insider has revealed that deception operations is ongoing in KK Park, and that it is probable the military occupied just a portion of the large-scale complex.

The source also believes Beijing is providing the Myanmar junta rosters of Asian persons it wants extracted from the fraud complexes, and sent back to stand trial in China, which may explain why KK Park was attacked.