Cross-border telecom fraud suspects transferred from Laos

Chinese and Laotian law enforcement forces have achieved another positive result by rigorously combating crimes such as cross-border extortion through “nude chats” and telecom fraud. A total of 250 Chinese nationals suspected of criminal activities have been smoothly transferred back to the Chinese side through a border port in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province.

The Chinese public security authorities have continued their international police enforcement cooperation with the Laotian police. They recently successfully dismantled three criminal hubs located in the Golden Triangle Special Economic

Zone in Laos, arresting 250 Chinese national suspects.

Currently, all relevant individuals and items involved in the case have been smoothly transferred to Chinese side through the Yunnan Xishuangbanna border port. This marks another significant achievement in the deepening law enforcement cooperation between the two countries’ police forces.

In November 2022, during the investigation of a nude chat extortion case, the public security authorities of Zhoukou city in Henan Province discovered a criminal group led by an individual named Liu and others.

This group had organized personnel and established bases in Myanmar and Laos to carry out cross-border nude chat extortion and telecommunications network fraud against Chinese nationals.

The Ministry of Public Security immediately organized the involved local public security authorities to trace deeper and conduct thorough assessments, gradually clarifying the organizational structure and locations of the criminal group’s bases.