Thirty-four Indonesian nationals were rescued from Poipet after being trafficked to the country. Also, Thai police found data cables stretching across the border with Cambodia and used by scam operations in Poipet
Prime Minister Hun Sen is returning home from Indonesia after testing positive for Covid-19, he said this morning, noting he has no symptoms but will miss meetings with Chinese and French leaders.
Indonesian nationals rescued from a Phnom Penh scam compound say they were targeting Facebook users every day to cheat them out of thousands of dollars. Most are relieved to have gotten away from the criminal work and threat of violence that hovered over them.
Thousands of viewers have circulated a video online of a woman pleading in Khmer for rescue from forced labor at a Sihanoukville scam center.
Police are questioning two U.S. men and one Indonesian woman who last week said they had been detained at an online business.
The Indonesian foreign minister discussed scam operations that had trapped Indonesian nationals in a meeting with the head of Cambodia’s National Police, and also met with dozens of people rescued from a compound in Sihanoukville.
The Indonesian Embassy worked to rescue 62 nationals from captivity at Sihanoukville scam compounds over the weekend. Phnom Penh sees a slew of new district governors.
A Vietnamese man died at a Bavet casino run by a Hun To associate, while 22 Indonesians were rescued from a few locations around the border town, police said.
Five Indonesian men stood trial on Friday over charges of drug possession, illegal confinement and torture amid a period of instability within an online gaming business that connected the group.
Prosecutors and government plaintiff lawyers declined to specify a country, organization or individual behind opposition leader Kem Sokha’s alleged “conspiracy with a foreign power” during his trial hearing on Wednesday.
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