A crackdown on Myanmar’s scam hubs has freed 10,000 workers, but concerns remain over the sustainability of the efforts against powerful crime syndicates.

China will fly home about 200 of its nationals found in scam-running compounds on the Thai-Myanmar border, a Thai security official said on Tuesday, as part of a multinational effort to crack down on illegal online operations run from the region.

Hundreds of Chinese workers were heading home on Thursday after being freed from online scam centres in Myanmar, as authorities crack down on the illegal

YANGON - The Myanmar authorities detained 273 foreigners from scam compounds along the border with Thailand on Feb 17, as a senior Chinese official visited frontier towns on both sides in a widening crackdown on illegal online operations.

Bangkok has taken a number of recent measures to clamp down on the cyberfraud operations in the border region.

An airlift carrying more than 1,000 Chinese nationals who had worked at online scam centers in eastern Myanmar began Thursday, after the rescued workers were taken across the border to Thailand and put on chartered flights to China.

Myanmar on Thursday handed over the first batch of hundreds of Chinese scam centre workers who are set to be repatriated through Thailand in the coming days.