A former singer at Phnom Penh’s infamous Rock Entertainment nightclub has been charged with financial crimes and could face years in jail over a tong tin savings scheme she claims went awry.
The Kandal Provincial Court charged a drug police officer with allegedly defrauding at least 18 families out of almost $200,000 in a loan scheme.
Monkey exporter Vanny Bio-Research said it would “stand firm by its business model” and denied a U.S. court indictment that it was shipping thousands of endangered wild macaques overseas.
A Phnom Penh scam compound staffed with — and targeting — Cambodians was shut down by a police raid last week, but authorities are giving few details about the operation.
Masterminds and brokers are operating online scams and fraud syndicates out of Cambodia, Interior Minister Sar Kheng admitted on Thursday, but argued that Cambodians were largely uninvolved in the criminal activities.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court postponed the trial of tycoon and three-star general Duong Ngiep again after his 12 defense lawyers did not turn up without reason.
A group of people have taken to social media wearing tax department uniforms and are suspected of attempting fraud, the department said on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld guilty verdicts against seven people convicted for attempting to join a 2020 Paris Peace Agreements Day protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh.
A team of five foreigners allegedly used the fake website “canadiabank.com” to defraud a victim of tens of thousands of dollars at a time.
Duong Ngeap, who railed against court corruption last week while facing a fraud charge, adultery conviction and $5-million bail order, was arrested this morning.
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