According to Thai newspaper Khaosd The United States imposed sanctions on a Thai company and a Myanmar armed group accused of operating cyber-scam centers that defrauded Americans and relied on human trafficking victims.
According to The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that it had blacklisted the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, a militia in Myanmar’s Karen State, along with four of its senior leaders, for supporting criminal operations that run online scam compounds targeting U.S. citizens.
OFAC also sanctioned Trans Asia International Holding Group Thailand Co., Ltd., Troth Star Co., Ltd., and Chamu Sawang, a Thai national also known as Chamnarn Sawang, for working with the DKBA and Chinese transnational criminal networks to establish and expand the scam centers.
According to OFAC, these operations use trafficked labor to support large-scale fraud schemes. Profits from the centers help finance the DKBA’s armed activities in Myanmar.
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