Watch: Inside the brand new city ‘built on scams’

Welcome to Shwe Kokko, a brand new city sat in one of Asia’s poorest corners, alleged to have been built on the proceeds of scams.

Sat on the Myanmar-Thai border, it’s home to a lucrative yet deadly nexus of fraud, money-laundering and human trafficking. The man behind it, She Zhijiang, is languishing in a Bangkok jail, awaiting extradition to China.

The BBC’s Jonathan Head was invited to see it for himself – and this is what he found.


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