Laukkai was a casino city with strong cultural ties to China before deteriorating into a lawless breeding ground for massive internet fraud operations

The Kokang capital of Laukkai on the China-Myanmar border was unknown to most of the world until it became an international online scam den and the site of intense armed conflict that has displaced thousands.

However, the governments of China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Laos have turned their attention to the small town as evidence emerged that citizens of those countries had fallen prey to gangs running fraud and human trafficking operations from the small town.

As most of the world was preoccupied by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the intensifying conflict in Israel and Palestine, an insidious. . .

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