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Philippine police raided fraud center to rescue slave workers and rescued nearly 900 people, including 8 Malaysians

The Philippine police launched a pre-dawn raid on Thursday and rescued hundreds of people who were forced to work in an online fraud center in the Philippines. Eight other suspects were arrested. Police found nearly 900 people at the scene, including eight Malaysians. The Philippine police stated that this operation stemmed from complaints from two foreigners. One of the Vietnamese citizens successfully escaped on February 28 and contacted the authorities to reveal that there were many workers waiting to be rescued; the other Malaysian citizen reported to the Malaysian Embassy Ask for help. The Anti-Organized Crime Commission of the Presidential Palace of the Philippines, together with members of the Philippine National Police and the Northern Luzon Command, issued a search warrant for Zunyuan Technology Company in Bamban Town, and successfully uncovered this large-scale fraud case suspected of involving human trafficking. The police also seized multiple guns and weapons during the operation, as well as rows of mobile phones suspected of being used in fraudulent transactions. Cruz, the leader of the task force, said that according to the rescued personnel, the company was involved in romance scams, cryptocurrency scams and other fraudulent activities. The victims were unable to leave because their passports were confiscated and they were controlled. " The police found 432 Chinese, 8 Malaysians, 371 Filipinos, 57 Vietnamese, 3 Taiwanese, 2 Indonesians and 2 Rwandans at the scene. The workers are being interviewed by police and immigration officers are reviewing their immigration documents. According to the rescued workers, the company abducted good-looking men and women to engage in fraudulent activities such as love fraud and cryptocurrency fraud, and the victims were usually Chinese. According to a police statement, the 10-hectare complex was disguised as an online gaming company.