The first group of 200 Chinese citizens suspected of involvement in scam call centers in Myanmar arrived in China yesterday after being repatriated from Myawaddy, Myanmar, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Xinhua published a photo gallery showing their arrival at an airport in Nanjing, the capital of eastern Jiangsu province.
More than 800 other Chinese fraud suspects are expected to be repatriated in the coming period.
Xinhua praised the repatriation of these suspects as a significant achievement in law enforcement cooperation between China, Myanmar, and Thailand in combating telecom fraud.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a daily news briefing on Thursday that fighting online gambling and telecom fraud is a necessary choice to safeguard the common interests of China and other regional countries, and is what people of all countries want.
Earlier this month, a Chinese court in Zhejiang province tried 23 defendants, including key members of several major telecom fraud groups based in northern Myanmar.
They were charged with 11 criminal offenses, including fraud, intentional homicide, intentional injury, illegal detention, operating casinos, drug trafficking, and organizing prostitution.
Photos by Xinhua
