CCTV documentary reveals the inside story of Myanmar's Northern Telecom fraud: the leader's cash became moldy and the victim's organs were forcibly harvested

China's state-run media CCTV recently aired the documentary "Documentary of the Destruction of Telecom Fraud in Northern Myanmar", which revealed for the first time the little-known dark inside stories of telecom fraud groups in northern Myanmar. The ringleader of the scam was so rich that the cash became moldy and had to be moved outside the house to dry. The man who was the victim was brutally beaten because he was unable to achieve the fraud performance for a long time. In the end, he was asked to "cut off his kidney to pay off the debt" and even had one of his kidneys forcibly removed.

The documentary revealed that some local armed forces and local chaebols regard telecommunications fraud as an important means to expand their power and make huge profits, and have formed a highly organized criminal industry chain under their protection. Bao Yanban, the leader of electronic fraud who once served as the county magistrate and construction minister of Mengbo County in the Wa State in northern Myanmar, accumulated a large amount of wealth through fraud and plunder.

Because there was too much cash stored in Bao Yanban's home, some of the banknotes became moldy due to long-term storage. In order to prevent the banknotes from rotting, he had to regularly move large amounts of cash to the roof and yard to dry them. "Drying money" turned out to be a staggering sight and a unique local landscape.

Compared with the extravagance and sudden wealth of the fraud leader, the victims who were controlled in the park faced a completely different fate. In the documentary, a man surnamed Tang who has returned to China recalled that in 2021, he was attracted by the rhetoric of "making a lot of money overseas" and smuggled himself to a telecommunications fraud park in the Wa State in northern Myanmar.

After entering the park, Tang Nan was forced to sign an IOU of RMB 70,000 because he was unable to complete the fraudulent performance. Since then, he has been treated as a "commodity" and resold many times to different fraud parks. However, Tang Nan, who had been unable to achieve his performance for a long time, was violently beaten by park personnel. The wounds on his body were severely ulcerated, and he was unable to move normally all day long.

Tang Nan recalled that when the person in charge of the fraud park saw that he could no longer continue to defraud, he actually asked for "cutting off a kidney to pay off the debt." In order to leave that hell-like place, he was finally taken to a remote farmyard and had his kidneys removed under extremely crude conditions.

In the documentary, the Chinese police handling the case pointed out that many victims originally had the idea of ​​"going abroad to make a lot of money" and "getting rich overnight" and went abroad through illegal means, but ended up falling into criminal traps such as human trafficking, illegal detention, intentional injury, and even trading of living organs. The public is once again reminded to be vigilant when faced with recruitment messages such as "high-paying jobs" and "get rich quick" overseas, and do not embark on a road of no return due to temporary greed for high salaries.