US Sanctions Thai Company Tied to Myanmar Scam Operations
According to Thai newspaper Khaosd The United States imposed sanctions on a Thai company and a Myanmar armed group accused of operating cyber-scam centers that defrauded Americans and relied on human trafficking victims. According to The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that it had blacklisted the Democratic Karen Benevolent […]
US lifts sanctions on Myanmar junta allies after general praises Trump
United States lifted sanctions designations on several allies of Myanmar’s ruling generals, two weeks after the head of the ruling junta praised President Donald Trump and called for an easing of sanctions in a letter responding to a tariff warning. Human Rights Watch called the move ‘extremely worrying’ and said it suggested a major shift […]
US Announces Sanctions Against Myanmar Military for ‘Facilitating’ Cyber Scams
The U.S. government has sanctioned a major militia in eastern Myanmar, describing it as “a key enabler” of online fraud operations that are costing Americans billions of dollars per year. In a statement, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that it had sanctioned the Karen National Army (KNA), along with […]