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Mizzima Yatai International Holding Group announced a complete halt to its operations in Shwe Kokko New City, but staff have reported that activities are still ongoing. Shwe Kokko is infamous for online gambling and scam centres. [1]

Mizzima The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Burmese individuals and companies tied to cyber fraud, forced labour, and armed groups, as part of a wider crackdown on Southeast Asian networks accused of stealing billions of dollars fro... [2]

Mizzima An announcement made by Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group Co. Ltd. Has been spreading on social media pages since 4 September. [3]

Mizzima Despite the Thai authorities cutting internet and phone connections to the Shwe Kokko and KK Park scam centres on the Thai border in Karen State they are still operating by using the Burmese Mytel telecommunications network. [4]

Mizzima Myanmar’s military junta announced on 11 December that it has established a Central Supervisory Committee for Combating Telecom Fraud and Online Gambling. [5]

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[1] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-09-28 · 100% match

Yatai International denies shutdown claims as operations continue in Shwe Kokko amid sanctions

Mizzima Yatai International Holding Group announced a complete halt to its operations in Shwe Kokko New City, but staff have reported that activities are still ongoing. Shwe Kokko is infamous for online gambling and scam centres.

[2] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-09-10 · 100% match

US sanctions Myanmar-based networks behind cyber scams and militias

Mizzima The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Burmese individuals and companies tied to cyber fraud, forced labour, and armed groups, as part of a wider crackdown on Southeast Asian networks accused of stealing billions of dollars fro

[3] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-09-07 · 100% match

News of Myanmar Yatai exiting Shwe Kokko project is spreading

Mizzima An announcement made by Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group Co. Ltd. Has been spreading on social media pages since 4 September.

[4] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-05-18 · 100% match

Karen scam centres using Mytel after Thai telecom companies cut connections

Mizzima Despite the Thai authorities cutting internet and phone connections to the Shwe Kokko and KK Park scam centres on the Thai border in Karen State they are still operating by using the Burmese Mytel telecommunications network.

[5] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-12-13 · 100% match

Myanmar’s junta establishes high-level committee to combat online scams

Mizzima Myanmar’s military junta announced on 11 December that it has established a Central Supervisory Committee for Combating Telecom Fraud and Online Gambling.

[6] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-05-22 · 100% match

JFM exposes Karen BGF/KNA regional criminal network

Mizzima The Myanmar junta-allied Karen Border Guard Force (BGF), rebranded as the Karen National Army (KNA), has built a transnational network of businesses that enriches the militia’s ruling family and their associates, and causes widespread sufferi

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-10-03 · 100% match

Myanmar One Championship fighters sponsored by Karen BGF leader’s family amid controversy over scam links

Photos – Meeting Phyo Wai, founder of the Phyo Wai Club, Saw Chit Thu’s son, Lieutenant Colonel Saw Chit Thu, and Thway Lin Htet.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-05-08 · 100% match

Sex, Drugs and Cyber Scams: Inside Myanmar’s Notorious Online Crime Hub

The sex workers are from China, Vietnam and Thailand, but the drugs are Made-In-Myanmar.

[9] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-02-03 · 100% match

Chinese-led scam operations and human trafficking surge in Karen State amid armed group control

Payathonzu Town, located on the Thai-Myanmar border, serves as a hub for online scam gangs Mizzima Special Correspondent Han Htoo Zaw Online scam operations, locally known as Kyar Phyant, run by Chinese-led online gambling syndicates and located in M

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-03-06 · 50% match

Chinese Developer’s Grand Claims Spark Fresh Concern in Karen State

YANGON — A Chinese company behind an urban development project near the Thai border in Karen State says it is planning to build on a swath of land under the control of a local armed group many times the size it was granted by the government.

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