KNU states that the online scam operation announced by the military as suppressed is only a place supervised by the DKBA Chief of Staff

Ayeyarwaddy Times, July 31 The coup regime announced on July 25 that it had suppressed an online scam operation defended by PDF and KNU, but the KNU has announced that it is actually a place supervised by the DKBA Chief of Staff. Although the interim government announced that it had raided an online money laundering and gambling operation in the Chauknet region, the location is the Phlu Lay region, 36 miles away from Chauknet, and is supervised by the DKBA Chief of Staff, and is only one of many online scam compounds that have relocated from KK Park and Shwe Kokko, it has been learned. The military, in its statement, claimed to have suppressed a scam compound in Chauknet, but the KNU stated that this was merely a written account as if they had entered and suppressed the "Chauknet Online Scam Compound," which is infamous and requires international attention and action. The notorious Chauknet Online Scam Compound is adjacent to the Thai border and is under the direct supervision of DKBA top official General Saw Kyaw Hla, who has been sanctioned by the US government, and is a place infamously known both regionally and internationally as the "Tai Chang" online money laundering compound. The military and its allies, the DKBA and BGF forces, are intentionally working to expand online scam operations throughout Karen State and other regions by pre-emptively removing those involved in money laundering, conducting staged raids on scam compounds, and arresting only those forced into criminal activities, according to the KNU. Furthermore, the KNU has announced that these scammers are forcibly purchasing land from the public even in KNU-administered areas, and that complaints can be filed with the KNU, which will not tolerate online money laundering and other related criminal activities in its administered territories.