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Life sentences for crypto fraud are now written into Myanmar's law, subject to one condition the bill cannot supply: a prosecution record.
Myanmar's parliament approved an anti-online scam bill whose draft proposed prison terms of 10 years to life for both crypto scams and the operation of scam centers. The case for severe penalties is in the text.
The structure of the bill The draft legislation proposed the same sentencing band, 10 years to life, across two categories of offense: perpetrating crypto scams and running the scam centers from which those operations are conducted.
Myanmar's parliament treats the enabling infrastructure as criminally equivalent to the scam itself. That is a deliberate structural choice.
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