1,200 slaves freed from Myanmar pig-butchering compound
Authorities in Myanmar have raided a compound and freed more than 1,000 slave laborers being forced to work in a series of so-called ‘pig-butchering’ scams, one of which has raked in an estimated $100 million in the past two years. The KK Park compound in east Myanmar was raided in a joint operation led by China, Thailand, and Myanmar earlier this week and 1,200 workers were reportedly freed . A flight chartered from China left Myanmar on Thursday afternoon with 150 of these victims on board, according to Deutsche Welle (DW), Earlier this week, Protos reported how one of the pig-butchering operations based at the compound has made around $100 million in USDT in the past two years. Many of the scams’ workers were trafficked from China, Southeast Asia, and Africa and were forced to scam crypto from victims in Europe, the US, and China. Single Chinese ‘pig-butchering’ operation made $100M in USDT, report Read more: UN report links crypto scams to Southeas...