Great wall of Thailand?


Taking action: The proposal comes after Thai police received 119 Thai nationals from Cambodian authorities after a raid in the town of Poipet pulled out over 215 people from a scam compound. — AFP

The country is studying the idea of building a wall on part of its border with Cambodia to prevent illegal crossings, its government said, as a multi-national effort to dismantle a sprawling network of illicit scam centres mounts.

The crackdown is widening against scam centres responsible for carrying out massive financial fraud out of South-East Asia, especially those on Thailand’s porous borders with Myanmar and Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked by criminal gangs in recent years, according to the United Nations.

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