Syndicates have been trafficking workers from across South-easts Asia and ensnaring them in slave labour camps. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Eight Filipinos who were trafficked to Myanmar to work as slave labour in a cryptocurrency scam there have been rescued, the Philippine foreign ministry said on Monday.
They were flown to Thailand, but were then smuggled to Myanmar, where they were forced to work for a syndicate running a cryptocurrency scam.All eight arrived in Manila early on Monday. A Malaysian interviewed by The Straits Times in January recalled how he was offered a job that purportedly paid up to RM5,000 a month, with commissions of up to RM6,000.
Another victim recounted how was beaten with water pipes and starved because he could not meet his monthly scamming quota of RM30,000. Others told of being subjected to water torture.
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