The Big Transfer: Sihanoukville Scammers Scatter
Workers say their scam companies moved before and during police raids of compounds, allowing businesses to escape the law — and some workers to escape detention.
Yan Huang Nov 3, 3:34 pm
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Workers say their scam companies moved before and during police raids of compounds, allowing businesses to escape the law — and some workers to escape detention.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday acknowledged foreign workers had been lured and trafficked to Cambodia amid ongoing police raids against criminal scam operations that have now reached Siem Reap.
Nearly 9,000 phones were seized from a Sihanoukville compound and barbed wire cut from the notorious “Chinatown” area. As human trafficking raids target compounds across the city, residents say other buildings appear to be quietly emptying of foreign workers.
National Police ruled that a Cambodian security guard’s corpse found hanging in Sihanoukville’s notorious “Chinatown” compounds was death by suicide.
A Chinese national, who was trafficked to Cambodia, alleges that his blood was harvested seven times since last August, after he refused to partake in scam operations, leaving him frail and putting his health at serious risk.
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