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23-05-2024, 07:39 PM
The IrrawaddyH- ome News Burma
Myanmar’s BGF: A Family-Run Criminal Enterprise With Friends Across Asia
Myanmar’s BGF: A Family-Run Criminal Enterprise With Friends Across Asia. The Myanmar junta-allied Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) has built a transnational network of illegal and abusive businesses, including cyber scam parks, with companies and individuals from Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand and other Asian countries committing international crimes with total impunity while enriching militia’s ruling family and their associates.
The organized criminal activities committed by the BGF and its associates are revealed in the latest report by Justice for Myanmar, a covert group of activists campaigning for justice and accountability for the people of Myanmar.
JFM’s investigation into the BGF (also known as Karen National Army)’s corporate structure and regional network provides new details into militia’s involvement in illegal businesses like online scams, illegal casinos and illegal online gambling in Myanmar’s Karen State on the Thai border.
The investigation also reveals the central role that BGF leader Colonel Saw Chit Thu (aka San Myint) and his children play in Karen BGF/KNA companies. In April, the BGF helped Myanmar junta troops return to Myawaddy after the border town was temporarily liberated by the Karen National Liberation Army and their allied resistance forces.
By distributing shares between family members, Saw Chit Thu’s family controls six Karen BGF businesses and has a minority stake in two notorious cyber scam parks: Apollo Park and Yulong Bay Park in Karen State on the Thai border.
Family businesses
Since forming an alliance with Myanmar military in 2010 to form the Border Guard Force, Saw Chit Thu, his family members and associates have benefited from material support provided by the Myanmar military and space to build their lucrative criminal businesses.
The Myanmar army in return has benefited through revenue from BGF organized crime. The BGF is said to enrich the Myanmar army with some 50 percent of the $192 million earned by the BGF annually from the Shwe Kokko Project, another transnational organized crime hub developed by the BGF in partnership with She Zhijinag near Myawaddy in Karen State. She Zhijinag was arrested in Thailand in 2022 on an international warrant and is awaiting extradition to China to answer charges of running illegal gambling operations.
Saw Chit Thu holds shares and directorships in at least five BGF companies and is able to control key militia enterprises with his family, despite past claims that he is merely a “consultant”. His two sons, Saw Htoo Eh Moo, 32, and Saw Chit Chit, 28, both hold the rank of major in the BGF. Saw Htoo Eh Moo is heavily engaged in BGF businesses, holding shares and directorships in nine Karen BGF companies and joint ventures, including two cyber scam parks: Apollo Park and Yulong Bay.
Saw Chit Chit is active in military operations alongside the junta, having commanded Karen BGF battalions in operations against resistance forces. Saw Chit Chit also holds shares and directorships in at least five Karen BGF/KNA businesses.
Saw Chit Chit in Shwe Kokko in 2022 / Thaung Yin FC Facebook. Saw Chit Thu’s daughter, Nan Hnin Nandar Aye, 26, holds shares and directorships in at least four Karen BGF businesses.
She studied at TMC Academy Singapore and the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, where she graduated from with a business and management degree. Nan Hnin Nandar Aye graduates from TMC Academy Singapore in 2017. / TMC Academy Facebook
Saw Chit Thu’s wife, Nan Khin Hla Thu.
She is involved in some family’s business ops, media posts, says she does not hold shares or directorships in companies. Justice for Myanmar could identify. She also benefits from proceeds of Karen BGF criminal activities. Shareholdings of Saw Chit Thu & his three children are combined, the family owns 50% or more of 6 Karen BGF businesses, based on 2022 records from Myanmar corporate registry, b4 junta restricted access.
There are two other key high ranking BGF members in the militia’s business network.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...-asia.html
Myanmar’s BGF: A Family-Run Criminal Enterprise With Friends Across Asia
Myanmar’s BGF: A Family-Run Criminal Enterprise With Friends Across Asia. The Myanmar junta-allied Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) has built a transnational network of illegal and abusive businesses, including cyber scam parks, with companies and individuals from Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand and other Asian countries committing international crimes with total impunity while enriching militia’s ruling family and their associates.
The organized criminal activities committed by the BGF and its associates are revealed in the latest report by Justice for Myanmar, a covert group of activists campaigning for justice and accountability for the people of Myanmar.
JFM’s investigation into the BGF (also known as Karen National Army)’s corporate structure and regional network provides new details into militia’s involvement in illegal businesses like online scams, illegal casinos and illegal online gambling in Myanmar’s Karen State on the Thai border.
The investigation also reveals the central role that BGF leader Colonel Saw Chit Thu (aka San Myint) and his children play in Karen BGF/KNA companies. In April, the BGF helped Myanmar junta troops return to Myawaddy after the border town was temporarily liberated by the Karen National Liberation Army and their allied resistance forces.
By distributing shares between family members, Saw Chit Thu’s family controls six Karen BGF businesses and has a minority stake in two notorious cyber scam parks: Apollo Park and Yulong Bay Park in Karen State on the Thai border.
Family businesses
Since forming an alliance with Myanmar military in 2010 to form the Border Guard Force, Saw Chit Thu, his family members and associates have benefited from material support provided by the Myanmar military and space to build their lucrative criminal businesses.
The Myanmar army in return has benefited through revenue from BGF organized crime. The BGF is said to enrich the Myanmar army with some 50 percent of the $192 million earned by the BGF annually from the Shwe Kokko Project, another transnational organized crime hub developed by the BGF in partnership with She Zhijinag near Myawaddy in Karen State. She Zhijinag was arrested in Thailand in 2022 on an international warrant and is awaiting extradition to China to answer charges of running illegal gambling operations.
Saw Chit Thu holds shares and directorships in at least five BGF companies and is able to control key militia enterprises with his family, despite past claims that he is merely a “consultant”. His two sons, Saw Htoo Eh Moo, 32, and Saw Chit Chit, 28, both hold the rank of major in the BGF. Saw Htoo Eh Moo is heavily engaged in BGF businesses, holding shares and directorships in nine Karen BGF companies and joint ventures, including two cyber scam parks: Apollo Park and Yulong Bay.
Saw Chit Chit is active in military operations alongside the junta, having commanded Karen BGF battalions in operations against resistance forces. Saw Chit Chit also holds shares and directorships in at least five Karen BGF/KNA businesses.
Saw Chit Chit in Shwe Kokko in 2022 / Thaung Yin FC Facebook. Saw Chit Thu’s daughter, Nan Hnin Nandar Aye, 26, holds shares and directorships in at least four Karen BGF businesses.
She studied at TMC Academy Singapore and the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, where she graduated from with a business and management degree. Nan Hnin Nandar Aye graduates from TMC Academy Singapore in 2017. / TMC Academy Facebook
Saw Chit Thu’s wife, Nan Khin Hla Thu.
She is involved in some family’s business ops, media posts, says she does not hold shares or directorships in companies. Justice for Myanmar could identify. She also benefits from proceeds of Karen BGF criminal activities. Shareholdings of Saw Chit Thu & his three children are combined, the family owns 50% or more of 6 Karen BGF businesses, based on 2022 records from Myanmar corporate registry, b4 junta restricted access.
There are two other key high ranking BGF members in the militia’s business network.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...-asia.html
