Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

Enforcement against Myanmar-linked unlicensed casino and scam-centre activity came entirely from foreign authorities. Chinese courts, the Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court and the Nan'an People's Court, sentenced three Wei-clan leaders to death, three to life imprisonment and 55 others to terms of three to 24 years, for operating illegal casinos, telecoms fraud, drug trafficking and forced labour from compounds in Myanmar's Kokang region, with processed funds exceeding RMB 12.2 billion since 2019. Separately, Thai authorities raided a border village and severed a 48-core fibre-optic cable illegally run across the border to power a casino and suspected scam centre on the Myanmar side. Within Myanmar's own statute book, the Gambling Law of 7 May 2019 criminalises unlicensed gambling-house operation and unauthorised solicitation of stakes, with penalties of six months to five years imprisonment and a fine up to MMK 1,000,000, but no Myanmar-issued enforcement action against the Kokang infrastructure was located. The pattern is one of enforcement filled by neighbouring and interested states rather than by Myanmar's own regulator or courts.