Bekämpft Laos tatsächlich seine riesige Betrugsindustrie?

SS: David Hutt, writing for Radio Free Asia, examines Laos’s recent crackdown on the cyber-scamming industry concentrated in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GTSEZ), where over 700 arrests were made in August with support from Chinese authorities. This decisive action targets a scam economy estimated at 40% of the country’s GDP, which has long operated under the autonomy of GTSEZ, controlled by Chinese crime boss Zhao Wei. While Laos reasserts sovereignty and aligns with Beijing’s anti-crime agenda, Hutt highlights concerns that dispersing scammers may replicate Cambodia’s decentralized, deeply entrenched networks, complicating efforts to dismantle the industry and risking broader corruption within Laos’s economy.