Bangladesh, Nov. 25 -- Myanmars military regime has launched one of its largest anti-scam offensives to date, arresting more than 1,600 foreign nationals in a five-day raid targeting online fraud syndicates along the Myanmar–Thailand frontier. The sweeping operation, which unfolded between November 18 and 23 in the notorious settlement of Shwe Kokko, underscores the juntas growing desire to show international partners that it is cracking down on cybercrime-even as the military faces its own accusations of complicity in the scam industry.

According to the junta-controlled Global New Light of Myanmar, the campaign resulted in the detention of 1,590 foreign nationals allegedly tied to industrial-scale online fraud, illegal gambling, a...