Notorious Cyber Deception Complex Connected with China-based Underworld Targeted

The Burmese armed forces announces it has captured a key the most notorious scam complexes on the border with Thailand, as it retakes important area previously lost in the continuing internal conflict.

KK Park, located south of the boundary community of Myawaddy, has been associated with online fraud, money laundering and people smuggling for the recent half-decade.

Thousands were enticed to the compound with guarantees of lucrative positions, and then compelled to run complex frauds, stealing countless millions of dollars from victims throughout the globe.

The armed forces, previously compromised by its links to the scam business, now says it has taken the facility as it expands dominance around Myawaddy, the primary commercial route to Thailand.

In the past few weeks, the armed forces has pushed back opposition fighters in multiple regions of Myanmar, aiming to expand the number of places where it can conduct a proposed vote, starting in December.

It currently doesn't control significant territories of the country, which has been divided by conflict since a armed takeover in February 2021.

The vote has been disregarded as a fake by opposition forces who have vowed to prevent it in areas they control.

KK Park began with a property arrangement in the first part of 2020 to build an industrial park between the KNU (KNU), the ethnic insurgent group which controls much of this area, and a little-known HK listed company, Huanya International.

Analysts believe there are relationships between Huanya and a notable China-based mafia personality Wan Kuok Koi, more commonly called Broken Tooth, who has later funded further fraud centers on the border.

The facility developed rapidly, and is easily visible from the Thailand side of the boundary.

Those who managed to get away from it detail a harsh environment established on the thousands, numerous from continental African nations, who were confined there, made to operate long hours, with torture and beatings inflicted on those who did not manage to meet quotas.

A announcement by the junta's information ministry claimed its troops had "liberated" KK Park, releasing more than 2,000 employees there and taking possession of 30 of Elon Musk's Starlink internet equipment – extensively utilized by fraud facilities on the border border for digital operations.

The statement faulted what it termed the "extremist" Karen National Union and civilian people's defence forces, which have been fighting the regime since the coup, for unlawfully occupying the territory.

The regime's assertion to have closed this infamous deception facility is very likely directed at its main supporter, China.

Beijing has been pressing the junta and the Thai government to increase efforts to end the criminal operations run by Chinese organizations on their shared frontier.

In previous months thousands of China-based laborers were extracted of deception facilities and sent on special flights back to China, after Thai authorities restricted availability to electricity and energy provisions.

But KK Park is only one of no fewer than 30 comparable facilities situated on the boundary.

A large portion of these are under the guardianship of ethnic Karen paramilitary forces aligned to the regime, and most are still operating, with numerous individuals operating schemes inside them.

In fact, the assistance of these paramilitary forces has been essential in assisting the military repel the KNU and other resistance organizations from territory they seized over the previous 24 months.

The junta now governs nearly all of the highway connecting Myawaddy to the rest of Myanmar, a target the military determined before it conducts the opening round of the vote in December.

It has seized Lay Kay Kaw, a recent settlement created for the KNU with Japan-based investment in 2015, a period when there had been aspirations for lasting stability in Karen State following a nationwide truce.

That forms a more important setback to the KNU than the seizure of KK Park, from which it obtained limited revenue, but where the majority of the economic gains ended up with military-aligned armed groups.

A informed contact has suggested that deception operations is ongoing in KK Park, and that it is likely the armed forces took control of only part of the large-scale facility.

The contact also believes Beijing is supplying the Burmese military rosters of Chinese individuals it seeks taken from the scam compounds, and sent back to face trial in China, which may explain why KK Park was raided.