Thailand and Cambodian police raided a building in the border area and rescued 215 foreigners including Pakistanis who were being forced to work in online fraud and scam centers.
According to a report by the Bangkok Post, the United Nations said that criminal groups have brought thousands of people from all over Southwest Asia to the aforementioned areas through human trafficking to force them to work in fraud centers and illegal online centers.
The United Nations had said in a report in 2023 that it is estimated that illegal centers are growing rapidly and billions of dollars are earned from here on an annual basis.
Thai government spokesman Jirayo Hounsab said in a statement that the people released from the fraud center included 109 Thais, 50 Pakistanis, 48 Indians, 5 from Taiwan, and 3 from Indonesia.
He said that this is the largest number of Thai citizens released from the building during the operation of people wanted on suspicion of cyber fraud for both countries.
According to the spokesman, the operation was carried out as a result of joint efforts by Thailand and Cambodia to stop fraud centers.
The report said that the fraud centers had been operating for many years, but now the scrutiny has been tightened after the Chinese actor Wan Xing was kidnapped by luring him with a lucrative job in Thailand and a move to a scam center in Myanmar.
There have been major operations in scam centers in Southeast Asian countries in recent days, with operations also carried out on the Thai-Myanmar border earlier this month, and electricity, fuel, and internet facilities were cut off in areas connected to the scam centers in Thailand.
The Thai military told the media that China has rescued 621 of its citizens from the scam centers in the past few days.
