CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:48 pm December 3, 2021
Online gambling scrouge spreads across country as more complaints emerge on forced slave-like labour

Despite hundreds of Thai nationals, 41 Indonesian nationals and small numbers of other foreign nationals being rescued by police from online gambling syndicates, the scrouge seems to be spreading across the country.

Police officials familiar with the matter said that after Khmer Times series of expose, 41 Indonesian nationals were successfully feed from what was termed China Project in Sihanoukville while hundreds more were freed in various provinces bordering Thailand where physical and online gambling, though the latter being illegal, is flourishing.

“Greed for easy money and promises of an almost expense free employment with tremendous perks should have set off alarm bells but yet, many Thais and other nationals are continuing to be duped into slave like working conditions where torture, beatings, assault, cramped living conditions and even sexual assault are frequent,” the officials said.

They added that many reports have been received on such allegations by family members and others supposedly detained by these syndicates and traded from one to another if they found to be unproductive.

“Once complaints are received, we start our investigations through many means and it takes weeks to establish the veracity of the complaints as the complexes are well protected with countless CCTV’s and physical lookouts who also have their own sources to tip them off of any possible raid.

“China too has started vigilance on its part by scrutinizing Chinese nationals who want to fly to Cambodia and in each flight, passengers with valid tickets and boarding passes are off-loaded when they do not satisfy the scrutiny. This is of big help as they are potential victims,” they said.

Other nationals involved in large but scattered numbers are Thais and Indonesians and while the Thais are mostly concentrated in the Thai border provinces where physical casinos are plentiful, others are spread across the country from Dara Sakor, Koh Kong to Kampot, Kep, Kandal, Phnom Penh and up to more than half the country’s provinces.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50981838/o ... ke-labour/