Crackdown on telecom fraud yields results

Over 80,000 suspects captured as overseas scam dens are dismantled

China's police have cracked about 1.74 million telecommunications and online fraud cases during the 14th Five-Year Plan period as the country stepped up efforts to tackle the crime, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The current period, which runs from 2021 to 2025, has seen China dispatch working groups to countries including Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia for law enforcement cooperation against fraud, said Jiang Guoli, political commissar of the Criminal Investigation Bureau at the Ministry of Public Security.

The joint operations led to the dismantling of more than 2,000 overseas fraud dens and the capture of more than 80,000 suspects, Jiang told a news conference in Beijing. These actions have deterred overseas fraud groups and curbed the incidence of cross-border scams, he said.