
Brief: Bavet Casino Worker, Three Others Arrested for Gun Possession
Bavet police have arrested four men for gun possession, including a suspect who works at an oknha-owned casino in the city.
Bavet police have arrested four men for gun possession, including a suspect who works at an oknha-owned casino in the city.
A journalist in Svay Rieng province has filed a complaint against the Bavet City police chief, saying the officer ordered journalists to delete a live video about a traffic accident before threatening to handcuff them and then deleting the video himself.
About 300 people from three provinces are urging three ministries and the Prime Minister’s cabinet to speed up solutions for their land disputes that have dragged out for more than a decade.
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.
As police raids have hit known scam locations and “illegal gambling” dens across the country, residents of casino haven Bavet say they have seen buses ferrying in hundreds of workers over the last few weeks to existing casinos and alleged scam compounds in the border town.
More than 60 Vietnamese nationals attempted to flee a Bavet city casino on Saturday, as regional media report more arrests and raids tied to forced labor and fraud operations in Cambodia.
A Vietnamese man jumped from the second story of a Bavet city building and died trying to escape a compound on Tuesday, but it was not “detention,” police said.
A former Bavet governor who was convicted for shooting protesting garment workers in 2012 was promoted in the Ministry of Interior, according to a government document from March.
Svay Rieng police are investigating the alleged killing of a 34-year-old Vietnamese casino worker by a group of four to five people. Three Chinese nationals were found dead in a BKK I condominium.
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