On the afternoon of September 9 at around 4:00 PM, security forces surrounded a residential house in Tachileik’s Wan Kao ward. Acting quickly on a tip-off from locals, a joint search team moved straight in and caught 56 people red-handed on suspicion of involvement in telecom scams and online gambling.
Among those detained were five Chinese men, alongside 25 Myanmar men and 26 Myanmar women. Officers also seized a haul of gear from the property, including 60 computers, 5 routers, 14 desks, 51 chairs, and two unplated motorbikes.
All 56 individuals are currently in custody and undergoing individual interrogation as local law enforcement prepares to take legal action against them. Crackdowns like this are nothing new around here, and locals are well used to hearing about them every now and then.
