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The Burmese junta announces it has seized a key the most well-known scam facilities on the border with Thai territory, as it regains crucial area surrendered in the current domestic strife.

KK Park, located south of the frontier settlement of Myawaddy, has been associated with internet scams, financial crime and forced labor for the previous five-year period.

Thousands were enticed to the facility with promises of well-paid employment, and then forced to manage complex scams, extracting substantial sums of money from affected individuals across the planet.

The junta, historically stained by its links to the fraud operations, now claims it has seized the complex as it expands authority around Myawaddy, the key commercial route to Thailand.

In the past few weeks, the military has pushed back insurgents in several areas of Myanmar, seeking to maximise the number of territories where it can hold a proposed vote, starting in December.

It still lacks authority over large swathes of the country, which has been divided by hostilities since a armed takeover in February 2021.

The vote has been disregarded as a fake by anti-junta elements who have pledged to prevent it in areas they hold.

KK Park started with a property arrangement in early 2020 to construct an business complex between the ethnic organization (KNU), the ethnic insurgent group which dominates much of this area, and a obscure HK listed corporation, Huanya International.

Investigators think there are connections between Huanya and a notable Asian underworld personality Wan Kuok Koi, often referred to as Broken Tooth, who has since invested in other fraud facilities on the border.

The compound expanded rapidly, and is easily observable from the Thailand territory of the boundary.

Those who managed to get away from it detail a brutal regime imposed on the numerous individuals, many from Africa-based nations, who were held there, made to labor long hours, with mistreatment and beatings administered on those who were unable to meet targets.

A statement by the regime's official media claimed its forces had "secured" KK Park, freeing in excess of 2,000 laborers there and confiscating 30 of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite terminals – commonly used by deception facilities on the Thai-Myanmar boundary for online operations.

The announcement blamed what it termed the "militant" KNU and civilian people's defence forces, which have been fighting the regime since the takeover, for wrongfully occupying the region.

The junta's claim to have closed this infamous deception facility is very likely targeted toward its primary patron, China.

Beijing has been pressing the junta and the Thailand authorities to do more to end the unlawful operations operated by Chinese networks on their border.

Earlier this year thousands of China-based laborers were extracted of scam facilities and flown on chartered planes back to China, after Thailand eliminated supply to energy and energy provisions.

But KK Park is merely one of at least 30 similar compounds situated on the frontier.

A large portion of these are under the guardianship of Karen armed units associated to the military, and many are still active, with tens of thousands running schemes inside them.

In reality, the support of these armed units has been crucial in helping the junta push back the KNU and further rebel groups from area they seized over the past two years.

The armed forces now governs nearly all of the highway linking Myawaddy to the rest of Myanmar, a objective the regime established before it holds the opening round of the election in December.

It has seized Lay Kay Kaw, a modern community established for the KNU with Japanese financial support in 2015, a period when there had been aspirations for permanent peace in Karen State following a national truce.

That constitutes a more important defeat to the KNU than the seizure of KK Park, from which it received a certain amount of revenue, but where the majority of the financial gains were directed to pro-junta paramilitary forces.

A informed contact has revealed that deception activities is persisting in KK Park, and that it is possible the junta took control of only part of the sprawling facility.

The source also suspects Beijing is providing the Myanmar armed forces rosters of China-based individuals it wants extracted from the deception facilities, and sent back to stand trial in China, which may clarify why KK Park was attacked.