The Cambodian police announced on Wednesday that it had detained more than 200 Vietnamese in the centers of Internet fraudsters. The intervention was ordered by the local government, informs TASR based on AFP report.
The United Nations describes Southeast Asia as a base of such centers, whose employees get their victims on social networks through Various tactics promising, for example, romantic relationship or business opportunities. They receive about € 35 million from users a year.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Tuesday ordered the security authorities and the army to “prevent online fraud or suppress them”. At the same time, he warned them that if they did not interfere in such cases, they could lose their jobs.
Police reported that during Monday and Tuesday it had been raked in two buildings in the capital Phnom Penh, where such fraudsters resided, while She detained 149 Vietnamese, three Chinese and 85 Cambodian citizens.
Further interventions occurred on Tuesday at four places in the coastal town of Sihanoukville in the south of the country. Police there She detained another 63 Vietnamese and secured 54 computers. Many of the people who worked in the centers say they lured them there under false pretext or became victims of abuse, According to the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) in Cambodia, it occurs on a “mass scale”.
In Cambodia, according to the June AI report, there have been at least 53 different fraudulent facilities managed by organized criminal groups, in which there was trafficking in human beings, forced or childhood work, torture, non -application of human rights, exploitation or modern slave.
AFP recalls that From Cambodia deported in March 119 Thai people belonging to a group of 230 foreigners, which the authorities there have been detained during the raids in fraudulent cyber centers in the border town of Poipet.
