India, May 6 -- The United States has imposed Sanctions on a Myanmar warlord and militia over their links to cyber scam operations.
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the Karen National Army as a transnational criminal organization, along with the group's leader Saw Chit Thu and his two sons, Saw Htoo Eh Moo and Saw Chit Chit, for their role in facilitating cyber scams that harm U.S. citizens, human trafficking, and cross-border smuggling.
The KNA-controlled region, located on the Thai-Myanmar border, is home to multiple cyber scam syndicates, and the KNA has benefitted from its connection to Myanmar's military in its criminal operations; American victims of cyber scams like the ones emanating fro...