Kampong Chhnang authorities said the shutdown of a local volleyball court over alleged gambling on games was part of a crackdown on scam operations ordered by Hun Sen.
Hundreds of foreign workers who were set free from Svay Rieng casinos have fled the country into Vietnam via rice fields and across a stream, local police said on Thursday.
Foreign workers threw rocks at buses as passengers tried to break out of them, according to police, as locals spoke of hundreds daily leaving alleged scam compounds in Svay Rieng’s border city of Bavet.
Four traffic police officers have been suspended for three months after a motorist posted a video showing she had driven through a green light despite being stopped and fined for purportedly ignoring a red, as social media users piled on with accusations of improper enforcement.
The family of a farmer shot dead by an illegal fishing patrol say they have accepted compensation, but are unhappy as five of six suspects in the case were released.
Four Chinese nationals were stopped from crossing from Preah Vihear into Laos this week, another cross-border case in the same location where 16 Chinese nationals were recently rescued from being trafficked across the border.
Amid targeted raids and arrests against scam and human trafficking operations in Cambodia, accounts from victims and a rescue group indicate that at least some syndicates are going to great lengths to relocate workers to a new country to evade capture.
Cambodia’s scam compounds conducted “illegal gambling” using a system that officials “do not understand,” Interior Minister Sar Kheng said, again skirting widespread accusations and evidence to support the presence of global scam operations in the country.
Three people have been arrested at airports in Phnom Penh and Thailand for allegedly kidnapping a colleague, stealing cash and transferring money from the victim’s phone, with a fourth suspect still at large.
Authorities have rescued 75 foreign nationals from a border town in Oddar Meanchey province following raids against online scam operations in Sihanoukville, Phnom Penh and elsewhere — though a local police official argued the work being done with forced labor was “normal.”
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