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India was to repatriate 500 of its citizens from Thailand aft a crackdown connected a Myanmar scam hub led to workers fleeing implicit the border, the Thai Prime Minister said connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025).
Sprawling compounds wherever net tricksters people radical with romance and concern cons person thrived on Myanmar's loosely governed borderline during its civilian war, sparked by a 2021 coup.
Since past week 1 of the astir notorious hubs — KK Park — has been roiled by evident raids, with hundreds fleeing implicit the frontier stream to the Thai municipality of Mae Sot.
The upheaval followed an AFP investigation which this period revealed accelerated operation astatine borderline scam centres, contempt a much-publicised crackdown successful February.
More than 1,500 radical from 28 countries had crossed into Thailand betwixt the commencement of the crackdown connected KK Park and Tuesday evening, according to the medication of the borderline state of Tak.
"Nearly 500 Indians are astatine Mae Sot," Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters. "The Indian authorities volition nonstop a level to instrumentality them backmost directly."
Many radical staffing the fraud factories accidental they were trafficked into the hubs, though analysts accidental workers besides spell willingly to unafraid charismatic wage offers.
Mr. Anutin did not accidental whether the Indian nationals were being treated arsenic criminals oregon victims, and the Indian embassy did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Experts accidental Myanmar's subject has agelong turned a unsighted oculus to scam centres which nett its militia allies who are important collaborators successful their combat against rebels.
But the junta has besides faced unit to unopen down scam operations from its subject backer China, irked astatine its citizens some participating successful and being targeted by the scams.
The February crackdown saw astir 7,000 workers repatriated and Thailand enforce a cross-border net blockade successful a bid to throttle disconnected the fraud factories.
