UPDATE: Ms Molika Detained

Cambodia News, (Phnom Penh): The Investigating Judge of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court finally issued a detention order for Oeun Molika, female, 27 years old, occupation: business, address: House 10, Street Borey Varina, Sangkat Kraing Thnong, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, on charges of failure to perform obligations on traded instruments, i.e. involving the issuance of US$ 365,000 of worthless checks.

The suspect, Oeun Molika, is charged with two criminal cases of writing hundreds of thousands of dollars bad checks .
Complaint 1: Ms. Oeun Molika issues a cashless check of US $ 300,000 to Samphos Soly Da, a pong player,
Complaint 2: Oeun Molika, issued a cashless check to Ty Channou for $ 65,000.
The above case was handed over to Phnom Penh Municipal Court Investigating Judge Tith Dalin after a preliminary two-day investigation. The judge then decided to issue a detention order for the suspect to be temporarily imprisoned on the evening of December 18, 2022.



Please be informed that the Phnom Penh Military Police at 15:25 on December 14, 2022 arrested you Ms. Oeun Molika, according to the arrest warrant issued by HE Chreung Khmao, Prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, No. 563 A ,dated 12 December 2022, related to the case of non-fulfillment of obligations for traded instruments (issuing dud checks), that took place in Phnom Penh.

The charges were filed following complaints by several Tong Tin "players" who invested/gambled money with the accused. It should be noted that Oeun Molika, a former singer, turned to selling products online. After that, she announced the opening of a large Tong Tin game online, asking her fans to play with her, and, because she always showed photos of herself looking rich with expensive luxury cars and wads of millions of US dollars on social media, there were many customers who wanted to play pong (or tong tin or tontine*) with her, believing that they too would become rich like her.

Then, suddenly at the end of November 2022, Ms. Oeun Molika declared bankruptcy. Subsequently, she declared before the court that she did not cheat anyone, and that she considers herself to be a victim, because she has no money left. However, Ms Molika did admit to financial negligence toward the pong players.
To be continued.

* CEO thread discussing Tong Tin:
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That is a very saddening development. Heartbreaking.

Singer-Turned-Online Seller Arrested Over ‘Tong Tin’ Fraud
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Mech Dara
| Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:22 pm
A former singer at Phnom Penh’s infamous Rock Entertainment nightclub has been charged with financial crimes and could face years in jail over a tong tin savings scheme she claims went awry.

Oeun Molika, who has been selling lotions, clothes and food such as pickled chicken feet on Facebook, was arrested last week by military police, which posted a photograph of her at a desk with piles of cash.

She was formerly a singer at Rock, a nightclub run by tycoon Kith Meng’s brother Kith Theang that was shut down in 2019 in a drug bust. Theang was sent to jail in the bust, though he rarely appeared to be inside, missing court hearings as prison officials explained that he was out on health checkups.

Phnom Penh Municipal Court spokesperson Y Rin said Wednesday that Molika had been sent to Prey Sar Prison’s Correctional Center 2 on charges of noncompliance under the Law on Negotiable Instruments and Payment Transactions.

The article under which she has been charged, 231, has punishments ranging from one to five years in prison.

Molika has amassed millions of Facebook followers — 2 million on her personal page and 1.4 million on her business account — to whom she pleaded innocence in video posts ahead of her arrest.

On November 22, she said in a video viewed by half a million people that she was the victim in a tong tin scheme gone wrong, but she would be paying people back as she was the boss.

Tong tin is an informal Cambodian savings scheme where members of a group regularly contribute interest payments, and periodically one member is allowed to withdraw the pot based on a bidding process.

“I have not cheated any tong tin member, and tong tin members have only cheated me. But I am the boss and I have to bear responsibility for it. … I will pay it all back but it will be in phases,” she says in the video, explaining vaguely that other members had claimed to have contributed thousands of dollars while only transferring $1 to the pot.

A video a week later says she is filing a case for fraud against the person who cheated her.
https://vodenglish.news/singer-turned-o ... tin-fraud/

No idea who she is apart from the sparse posts I've casually come across on here, but, and I think this might be a uniquely British thing, anyone who flaunts their wealth in this way, posting pictures of themselves surrounded by piles of dollar bills, or sitting in their luxury sports cars gets an instant dislike from me.

What she's really saying in pictures like this is "I got all of this from f***ing idiots like you that bizarrely seem to idolise everything that I say and do". That other guy, Andrew Tate, is no different.

I have no problem with successful people, but there's a dignity that goes along with success, and unless you realise that, you will always be setting yourself up for a fall.

January 20, 2023
Disgraced internet celebrity Molika questioned on new fraud charges
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Online lotion celebrity Oeun Molika – whose flamboyant lifestyle of new cars, expensive houses and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of $100 bills dramatically crashed to earth when she was arrested for fraud – faced new charges yesterday in court.

The former lotion superstar was sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on January 19, 2023, for questioning on a new complaint related to fraud on the orders of Mr. Seng Meng Srun, Deputy Prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.

Sources from the court confirmed that the fraud case handled by Deputy Prosecutor Seng Meng Srun was filed by plaintiff Voeun Davin, a 21-year-old female, but the amount of the fraud was not known.

The Investigating Judge of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court had previously detained the 27 year old suspect on charges of ‘Failure to perform obligations on traded instruments’ involving the issuance of cashless checks for at least $365,000.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501223066/ ... d-charges/

September 6, 2023
Fallen idol: Online lotion celebrity appears in court

Disgraced online lotion celebrity Oeun Molika – whose glamorous lifestyle hid the fact that she was defrauding trusting investors of millions of dollars – appeared in court yesterday, with a verdict expected on the 19th of September

The trial, which is presided over by Judges Pich Vicheathor and Vong Savath, charges 28-year-old Oeun Molika with failing to comply with trafficking in Phnom Penh in 2022.

Online lotion celebrity Oeun Molika – whose flamboyant lifestyle of new cars, expensive houses and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of $100 bills dramatically crashed to earth when she was arrested for fraud in 2022 – has admitted that she stole millions of dollars in a ‘tontine’ scheme – a system for raising capital in which individuals pay into a common pool of money and receive dividends based on their share of returns from investments made with the pooled money.

The former star was well known on social media for displays of conspicuous consumption and flaunting of her wealth on social media.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501355825/ ... -in-court/