Myanmar workers in Thailand arrested after allowing online gamblers and money launderers use their bank accounts


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YANGON/BANGKOK (Eleven Media Group/ANN): Myanmar workers were arrested and facing arrest warrants because online gamblers and money launderers were using their bank accounts, announced the Myanmar Embassy in Thailand.

Myanmar workers holding PJ passports open bank accounts and passbooks in banks arranged by MOU companies when they arrive in Thailand, and when doing so, some Myanmar workers who were not familiar with bank processes followed the instructions of some representatives of the MOU companies and some bank accounts and passbooks were being kept by some representatives, it said.

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