Laos- China Telecom Fraud Crackdown

The Chinese authorities said on Wednesday that Laos has handed over a total of 268 suspects involved in cross-border telecom frauds affecting Chinese citizens to Chinese police.

The suspects have been implicated in over 1,570 related cases in multiple localities in China. Chinese police sent a working team to Laos in January to carry out the cooperation, where the police forces from the two countries raided several criminal sites in Laos, capturing the suspects and seizing mobile phones and computers used in criminal activities.Investigations into the related cases are ongoing.