India, Dec. 11 -- Slave compounds in Myanmar and neighbouring areas have emerged as major hubs for digital arrest frauds in India, and masterminds from Cambodia, China, and Hong Kong controlled the money extorted from the victims, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Thursday as it filed a charge sheet against 13 suspects in a cyber fraud case.

The CBI has been investigating multiple digital arrest frauds originating from Southeast Asia, where Indian nationals were being forced to work in call centres to dupe people. Last month, India brought back nearly 500 citizens who had fled to Thailand from a notorious cyber scam centre in Myanmar. As many as 549 Indians were freed in March and brought back from cybercrime centres alon...