Chinese Actor Wang Xing was deceived into traveling to Thailand for a job opportunity and ended up becoming a victim of the Myanmar Myawadi telecommunication fraud zone. Following Wang Xing’s rescue, more cases of victims came to light, raising questions about the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the fraud zone. Deputy Minister Liu Zhongyi of the CCP’s Ministry of Public Security recently admitted that there are 36 large telecommunication fraud groups operated by Chinese individuals in Myawadi, employing over 100,000 people. This information has not been reported by mainland Chinese official media.
According to the Thailand Nation News, Deputy Minister Liu Zhongyi led a delegation to Nonthaburi, on the outskirts of Bangkok, to meet with officials from the Thai Technology Crime Investigation Bureau on Monday, January 27.
During the meeting, Liu Zhongyi mentioned that there are 36 large fraud groups operated by Chinese individuals in the Myawadi area, employing over 100,000 people. He also noted that many Chinese citizens are lured or kidnapped to work for criminal groups in Myanmar, with some victims being beaten or even killed.
The CCP’s Ministry of Public Security proposed the establishment of a “coordinating center” between China and Thailand. Thailand also suggested that China should lead a regional conference inviting Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia to jointly address the issue of telecommunications fraud.
However, as of now, these related developments have not been reported by mainland Chinese media. Only a few self-media outlets have cited some content, avoiding mentioning sensitive information such as the large telecommunication fraud groups in Myawadi being “operated by Chinese individuals.”
The Hong Kong Sing Tao Daily reported on this matter.
Some netizens doubt whether the data presented by the CCP’s Ministry of Public Security officials have been downplayed.
Telecommunication fraud zones operated by Chinese individuals exist in various regions of Myanmar. Many survivors of Myanmar’s telecommunication fraud zones have revealed that the bosses of these fraud groups are “all Chinese,” and Chinese individuals who were lured or kidnapped endure various forms of torture, including women being sexually assaulted and many others being murdered, having their blood drawn, or even having their organs harvested.
Chinese actor Wang Xing was deceived into entering Thailand for filming on January 3 this year, and he went missing at the Thai-Myanmar border before being kidnapped to the Myawadi telecommunication fraud zone in Myanmar. His girlfriend’s plea for help sparked public attention. Under significant public pressure, the CCP government cooperated with Thai authorities, and on January 11, Wang Xing was rescued.
After Wang Xing was rescued, relatives of other Chinese individuals still detained in the Myanmar fraud zone began sharing details of their family members’ cases on social media. A Google document named “Star Return Home Project” has collected a list of nearly 1,800 Chinese citizens abducted.
Reuters reported that among the nearly 1,800 victims recorded in the document, about 93% are male, with an average age of 27, most falling between 15 and 45 years old. Many were enticed to the fraud zones due to economic difficulties. Approximately half of the families stated that they could not file reports with local authorities.
Voice of America reported on January 29 that the CCP authorities intended to stage a grand show of rescuing kidnapped citizens overseas as a display of caring for the people. However, Wang Xing inadvertently revealed that there were dozens of other Chinese individuals with him in the zone, and there might be even more victims in surrounding buildings, exposing the alarming trend of more people being deceived into Myanmar’s telecommunication fraud center. This has led to increasing skepticism among netizens regarding the CCP’s “national role” in the long-standing Myanmar fraud zone.
The Ministry of Public Security of the CCP claimed to have launched operations to combat transnational telecommunications fraud. However, various pieces of information indicate that the Myanmar telecommunication fraud zones may have backing from the CCP.
An article titled “Listening to Chinese Entrepreneurs Tell the Story of One Belt, One Road: Building Special Economic Zones in the Desolate Land of Myanmar” published in the Global Times in 2019, which praised KK Park’s founder, Duan Zhengli, as one of the operators of the Myawadi telecommunication fraud zone, has been deleted.
Another project near KK Park, the “Myanmar Asia Pacific International Smart Industry New City” (referred to as “Asia Pacific New City”), has also been implicated in telecommunications fraud and gambling activities. The park was established by another CCP National Security agent, She Zhijiang. The CCP’s official media once extensively promoted She Zhijiang and the project. She Zhijiang later fell out with the CCP’s National Security and was lured and detained in Thailand. After She Zhijiang was arrested, multiple senior CCP agents in Myanmar were exposed, many of whom were linked to the fraud zones.
In September 2023, She Zhijiang recorded a video in a Thai prison, publicly admitting to being a former CCP National Security Department officer, manipulated and persecuted by the CCP, and declaring that he would never commit suicide.