More than a thousand suspects to be sent home from Mae Sot this weekListen to this articleSome 300 Chinese nationals linked to online scam gangs operating in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township were extradited to China via Mae Sot airport in Tal province on Tuesday. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)MAE SOT - More than 300 Chinese nationals linked to scam syndicates based in Myanmar were extradited to their home country from Mae Sot airport in Tak province on Tuesday. The group are among 1,108 Chinese nationals scheduled to be returned under a four-day extradition plan. Thai, Chinese and Myanmar immigration officials brought the first group of returnees onto a chartered China Southern Airlines plane, as part of a coordinated crackdown on transnational cybercrime. Tak immigration officials said those repatriated on Tuesday had been detained at the province’s immigration detention facility.

Source: Bangkok Post January 20, 2026 15:06 UTC