More than 1,000 arrested in Cambodian cyber scam raids | Crime messages

Nationwide liability follow the guideline of Prime Minister Hun Manet to act against criminal operations.

The Cambodian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people in raids on cyber scam connections.

The suspects were arrested in raids in at least five provinces between Monday and Wednesday, according to the Minister of Information Neth Ptheakra and the police.

The Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet published a guideline on Tuesday in which you have prevented and promoted the law enforcement authorities and the military “against online frauds”, and warned that you risk losing your work if you do not take measures.

Since the pandemic, Cambodia has been plagued by the rapid spread of cyber scam operations-many of them by Chinese groups for organized crime. In the connections that range from individual apartments to extensive, several matters, an international army of fraudsters is forced to carry out global romance and business books that have chosen the ignorant victims from billions of dollars.

Most employees are lured with promise of good jobs just to make torture or even death when they try to escape. The United Nations estimates that more than 100,000 people in Cambodia are enslaved in Cambodia alone, part of a wider landscape in Southeast Asia, which is responsible for $ 40 billion per year.

The detained included more than 200 Vietnamese, 27 Chinese and 75 suspects from Taiwan and 85 Cambodian in the capital Phnom Penh and the southern city of Sihanoukville. The police also confiscated devices, including computers and hundreds of mobile phones.

At least 270 Indonesians, including 45 women, were arrested in Poipet on Wednesday, a city on the border with Thailand that are notorious for cyber scam and gambling surgery, said the minister. Elsewhere, the police arrested 312 people in the northeastern province of Kratie, including the national Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar and Vietnam, while 27 people from Vietnam, China and Myanmar were arrested in the western province of Aptort.

While the procedure of the latest is in a number of mass arrests, many government critics have accused the government of doing too little to prevent their spread and claim to act corruption and insider. In September, the US government imposed sanctions against Tycoon Ly Yong Phat, a close employee of the Prime Minister and his family, for allegations of forced labor and cyber scams.

Last month, Amnesty International published a report in which the Cambodian government “deliberately ignored a litany of human rights violations, including slavery, human trafficking, child labor and torture, which are carried out by criminal gangs in more than 50 fraudulent masses across the country”.

The government has routinely refused such claims and explained that they do what they can do.

Cambodia's most recent procedure takes place in the middle of a bitter feud with neighboring Thailand, which began at the end of May with a short armed battle about the border area claimed by both nations and has now led to border closures and almost daily exchange of nationalist insult. Friendly former leaders of both countries are alienated and there were heated debates about which cultural heritage of the nation influenced the others.

The measures initiated by the Thai side, including the performance of cross -border power supply and the closure of crossing points, have particularly increased tensions, whereby Kambodia claims that it is a retaliation for its intention to pursue its territorial claims. Thailand said his original intention was to combat long-standing cyber scam operations in Poipet.