Cooperation in combating telecom fraud bears fruit in Lancang-Mekong countries

KUNMING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Six Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) countries have achieved fruitful results in combating telecommunication fraud, firearm smuggling and other criminal activities.

Through jointly carrying out an operation from August to December last year, law-enforcement agencies from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam cracked down on over 160 cases mainly involving telecommunication fraud, arrested over 70,000 criminal suspects and rescued more than 160 victims, according to the Lancang-Mekong Integrated Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Center.

Representatives from the six countries met on Tuesday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, to mark the fruitful operation.