Cambodia Breaking News, (Phnom Penh): At 11:30 a.m. on August 21, 2021, he Phnom Penh Municipal Gendarmerie, in cooperation with the local Gendarmerie in Khan Chamkar Mon, raided a condominium at No. 97, Street 508, Sangkat Phsar Doeum Thkov, Khan Chamkarmon, and arrested more than 80 Chinese men and women and sent them to the Phnom Penh Municipal Gendarmerie for further action.



In connection with this case, BTV News agents telephoned Colonel Maing Sok Lux, Director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Phnom Penh Municipal Police, who was in charge of the operation, to obtain further information on the Chinese detention operation and to find out what the crime was. The Colonel said that he was busy and then hung up the phone.

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So were they living there, or scamming on phone or else there, or both ?
That makes a lot of people for sure in the lift at each movement, and 80 chinese people in such a tiny singled building let alone a condo doesn't look like secretive....
Rolling shifts ?
The closest Chinese food outlet must have noticed a bump in his business since they were there ?

More photos from the scene: https://cc-times.com/posts/15097

Secrets to induce online gambling, Cambodian casinos 100,000 people participate in gambling, WeChat group induces gamblers
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The Guangdong police announced that they had cracked a case of opening a casino on a huge cross-border network, arresting a total of 36 suspects and freezing 110 million yuan in funds. At present, the flow of funds involved in the case has been ascertained in excess of 100 billion yuan.

WeChat group set up gambling bureau leads to Cambodian gambling group

In August 2021, Guangdong Fuling police cracked an online gambling case and arrested 11 suspects. After investigation, the suspect in the case established a temporary WeChat group and set gambling odds every day to attract gamblers into the group and conduct guessing and gambling. Criminal suspects use software to connect to overseas gambling websites, apply for agent or member accounts on gambling websites to recharge, bet, and withdraw cash, and make profits through poor odds, liquidity bonuses, and website profit dividends.

In the process of in-depth investigation, the police handling the case discovered that an overseas online gambling criminal group located in Cambodia entered the police's field of vision.

Police investigations found that the total betting turnover in this case uncovered in Fuling exceeded 330 million yuan, and that this overseas gambling website had thousands of illegal agents in China.

Zhang Yuxi, deputy head of the Internet Security Detachment of the Public Security Bureau of Fuling District: Calculated based on the number of gambling guests of our two criminal gangs in Chongqing, there are at least close to 200 gamblers in Guangdong; based on more than 1,000 agents across the country, gambling personnel At least they are more than 100,000 people.

36 suspects were arrested and the amount involved in the case exceeded 100 billion

Due to the large number of people involved in the case, the wide scope, and the large amount of money, and the main suspects and criminal dens were outside the country, the Guangdong police immediately set up a task force. In August 2021, the case was listed as a "Jingwang 2021" Ministry Supervision Case by the Ministry of Public Security.

Subsequently, the Chinese police cooperated with the Cambodian police to carry out investigations on suspects and dens in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

Policeman handling the case: The building of the den is quite special. It is a kind of enclosure, surrounded by buildings, and the large walls are relatively high. The wire-drawing type looks relatively closed, a bit similar to a prison.

After investigation, on August 19, 2021, the task force, with the assistance of the Cambodian police, began to implement the network retraction operation.

Subsequently, the police successfully smashed 13 criminal dens in Cambodia and China in Shanghai, Fujian, Heilongjiang and other places, seized more than 100 mobile phones and computers, more than 100 bank cards, and frozen more than 2,000 bank cards involved in the case. The total amount of funds involved was 1.1. More than 100 million yuan.

Police Zhang Haoxin of the Case Investigation Division of the Guangdong Municipal Public Security Bureau's Internet Security Corps: According to our investigation, since January 1, 2018, the entire online gambling platform has involved more than 100 billion yuan (RMB).

Attract 100,000 people to participate in gambling with high odds bait

After the centralized network collection operation, the police successively arrested eight main suspects of the gambling gang in Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

According to the police, the online gambling criminal gang has a complex structure, involving criminal chains inside and outside the country, with over 1,000 agents across the country and more than 100,000 people involved in gambling. So, how do gambling websites attract so many gamblers to participate in gambling?

It is understood that this type of gambling website basically relies on the results of each draw of the official lottery. Another website has been set up to set up a variety of betting methods to lure gamblers into gambling with a higher winning rate.

This kind of routine makes many people who participate in gambling feel that the dealer here cannot control the result of the lottery, and the odds are still very high. If you gamble in it, you will not only lose, but you will probably win.

Clear division of labor, gambling gangs have a complete industrial chain

The police investigation found that the online gambling group formed a complete industrial chain of front, middle and back ends. Including front-end overseas online gambling gangs; mid-end professional money laundering gangs, commonly known as "water houses"; and the back-end black industry chain that provides technical support for online gambling. Once a gambling participant enters online gambling, he basically loses out of ten gambling. Among the online gambling personnel are private business owners who have lost tens of millions, housewives who have lost the savings of their entire family, and unemployed people who have borrowed money for gambling and carried hundreds of thousands of debts.

Zhang Haoxin, a policeman from the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Internet Security Corps Investigation Division: As long as you participate in online gambling, you basically lose. Even if some people win a little today, they will definitely get deeper and deeper tomorrow, and they will output. Therefore, I also advise my friends, never touch online gambling.

Source: Netease News

Sounds like a lot of effort & risk for yer Chinese, if they wanna have a flutter.
Wonder why they don't just come here, & play a game o' cards in front of their houses.....oh, that ain't allowed either, innit!

I assume that most of the gamblers they attract are in China. It begs the question why come all the way to Cambodia then to set up shop? I'm guessing because there is less chance of getting caught and even if you do you can get off pretty easy with a little tea money. Maybe just get reported back to China.

Because they can get their money out in USD regardless of the source.
It is not small money.
It is a threat to their economy.
There are Chinese police here in Cambodia with this activity as their sole focus.
Naturally they work very closely with local authorities.

I get the feeling that Sihanoukville has been given up on by the government in such that the majority of businesses are owned and run by Chinese who have poured literally millions into the town and surrounds which has in turn led to the seemingly high rate of crime (drugs, kidnappings, extortion, illegal gambling, murders), since the "takeover". Now and again there is a bust of some kind by the local cops but even this rings hollow and it seems this is more just for show than actually preventing the crime in the first instance and even then there is seemingly no further action reported to the local media.
I can't see any of these latest Chinese being dragged before a Cambodian court but instead I'm sure they will be sent back to China to face further action there and even then they would have at a guess caught the low level members with perhaps a manager or two while the upper ranks would not have been involved even if they were in the area. So they have chipped away at the iceberg but there would be a lot more illegal gambling operations ongoing and I don't think the local cops have the experience nor the willpower to do much about it.
It will be yet another case where the local media won't follow up on and the best we will probably see will be one of those awkward family style portraits the Cambodians love to take which will be of the perps surrounded by everyone Bong cradling his Chinese copied AK47 standing behind trying to look intimidating. If it was 3 or 4 Khmer grannies playing cards well that's different, stakes are higher obviously and the Officer in charge would be calling in the senior govt members for the family photo with the grannies doing the re-enactment of their card game and the tally of confiscated goods - 1 x blanket, 2 packs cards, 3 or 4 pair rubber thongs (double pluggers for a high stakes game), 1 or 2 Honda Wave motos would also be on display.