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Myanmar military protected $14bn scam hub Four families ran huge criminal empires in Myanmar.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/271930...n-scam-hub

Now latest news:..An armed alliance of ethnic minority groups in Myanmar claimed late Friday (Jan 5) to have captured a northern town notorious for online scam operations in another blow to the embattled junta.

The military is facing its biggest threat since seizing power in a 2021 coup after three armed ethnic groups - known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance - launched a sweeping October offensive in northern Shan state.

Since November people have been fleeing Laukkai town, located in a district bordering China that is run by a Myanmar military-aligned militia and notorious for gambling, prostitution and online scams run out of compounds staffed by thousands of people, many trafficked.

The alliance - made up of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Arakan Army (AA) and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) - said the town was now under their control.

"All members from the Myanmar Army's Military Operational Command in Laukkai were disarmed and Laukkai became a clean area where there are no more members of the Myanmar Army," the alliance said in a statement.It added that scores of junta soldiers, including some officers, had been captured and disarmed.
The junta has not commented.

TNLA Brigadier-General Tar Bhone Kyaw confirmed Saturday that MNDAA had taken Laukkai. is their land, they got it back now. n
"Their people will not have to stay anymore under the military regime,"
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/mya...wn-4029071