Saved more than a hundred Thai citizens who were trafficked in an online money laundering business

 

In December 2022, Myanmar While meeting the Thai Women and Children Foundation official who helped three Thai women who were freed after being trafficked in Lauk Kai, Shan State.

Myanmar authorities have rescued more than a hundred Thai nationals who were trafficked to work in online money laundering operations somewhere in Shan State, Thai authorities said on Thursday, informing Thai officials.

The repatriation of the trafficked Thai nationals has been suspended and they are still in Myanmar, he said.

"On October 24th, the Thai ambassador to Myanmar met with high-ranking officials from the Myanmar Immigration Department, and they talked about the rescue and care of the Thai citizens who were forced into illegal online money laundering gangs in Lauk Kai with the help of the Myanmar government," Thai Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kanchana Patarachoke said on Thursday.

"In the latest incident yesterday, Burmese officials rescued six more Thai nationals from various locations and brought in 141 survivors. There are still many Thais in Lauk Kai." also said.

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Lauk Kai region is a district in the Kokang Autonomous Region of Shan State. In that region, Thai people are involved in online money laundering activities. An NGO and member of parliament said they were being forced into prostitution.

In one day, Myanmar authorities were able to evacuate about 200 foreigners, including 61 Vietnamese nationals, who were trafficked to work in online money laundering operations in Myanmar, a spokesman for Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

He said that the Myanmar authorities had informed the Vietnamese embassy in Yangon that the Vietnamese citizens had been evacuated.

A spokesman for Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told reporters that after the identity of the 61 Vietnamese nationals was verified by ministry officials, the authorities of the two countries were instructed to cooperate in repatriating them.