Manhunt After Nagaworld Casino Pawnbroker Murdered and Robbed

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Cambodia News, (Phnom Penh): Authorities are searching for the brutal murderer who stabbed to death the owner of a pawn shop, at 10 pm on January 16, 2023 at the NagaWorld casino, 1st floor, Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh.

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The victim was a 38 year old woman, named as Ung Chung Gek, owner of the shop. After examination of the body at the scene, Khan Chamkar Mon police and the specialized force of the Technical Office of the Forensic Examination of the Phnom Penh Municipal Police confirmed that the death was a case of deliberate murder and robbery, and the suspect is said to have escaped with US$600K stolen from the victim's shop.
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The prime suspect is currently on the run, and authorities are using a photo taken at the crime scene in order to conduct a search operation to bring him to justice.
The body of the victim was handed over to the family for a traditional ceremony at Wat Teuk Thla.
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very unclear what happened currently

- got stabbed in a nagaworld toilet/bathroom
- $600K missing, but no information who originally took/stole it and stolen from where???; from reports it looks she took it and then got stabbed afterwards? during handover? by that guy? bf? crime partner? both?
- can't be right? I mean they wouldn't allow one person to supervise that amount of cash, no? (assuming she was responsible for internal cash transportation?)

I don't believe the original story with the money coming out of a pawnshop, makes no sense. otherwise maybe drug related money (nothing to do with naga).
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chriz_PP wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:49 am by that guy? bf?
He looks totally gay.
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chriz_PP wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:49 am

I don't believe the original story with the money coming out of a pawnshop, makes no sense. .
Why not?

Formal and informal pawnbrokers are drawn toward Nagaworld like flies to a fresh pile of shit. They have a steady supply of gambling addicts to exploit 24/7/365
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chriz_PP wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:49 am very unclear what happened currently

- got stabbed in a nagaworld toilet/bathroom
- $600K missing, but no information who originally took/stole it and stolen from where???; from reports it looks she took it and then got stabbed afterwards? during handover? by that guy? bf? crime partner? both?
- can't be right? I mean they wouldn't allow one person to supervise that amount of cash, no? (assuming she was responsible for internal cash transportation?)

I don't believe the original story with the money coming out of a pawnshop, makes no sense. otherwise maybe drug related money (nothing to do with naga).
She is quoted as the owner, so it may well be her own lack of tight security procedures that has brought about the crime. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not victim blaming. It is just a common human trait to eventually normalise what would usually be very abnormal.

If your boss sends you to the bank to pay in $50,000 in cash, the first time would rack your nerves. If you do it every day it will quickly become just another errand (until one day you wake up with a crowd around you and a big lump on your head).
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Doc67 wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:52 pm
chriz_PP wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:49 am very unclear what happened currently

- got stabbed in a nagaworld toilet/bathroom
- $600K missing, but no information who originally took/stole it and stolen from where???; from reports it looks she took it and then got stabbed afterwards? during handover? by that guy? bf? crime partner? both?
- can't be right? I mean they wouldn't allow one person to supervise that amount of cash, no? (assuming she was responsible for internal cash transportation?)

I don't believe the original story with the money coming out of a pawnshop, makes no sense. otherwise maybe drug related money (nothing to do with naga).
She is quoted as the owner, so it may well be her own lack of tight security procedures that has brought about the crime. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not victim blaming. It is just a common human trait to eventually normalise what would usually be very abnormal.

If your boss sends you to the bank to pay in $50,000 in cash, the first time would rack your nerves. If you do it every day it will quickly become just another errand (until one day you wake up with a crowd around you and a big lump on your head).

I'm just really unsure about it as she was stabbed in the toilet and not her shop, but no info on if she was robbed that time or if the killer got the key and.then stole the cash.

well we ultimately know nothing, as usual (except of that the money is 'lost' permanently)
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@chriz_PP I don't think the money is the goal here. You seem to have misidentified the key takeaway. Not about money, but that a human was murdered in cold blood in a public place, with holidaying families and security gantries. The sum total is always bungled up by all parties here so I won't be hung up on reported figures.

The toilet could also have been in her store, or the toilet could have a safe, or he needed to pee. Among other possibilities...

Also, come to think of it, I'd be happy if they just got the name of the victim right. Which is never a given even.

Hope her killer faces the other no-named business associates of her company. Would be a fairer outcome than the lethargic hand of lady justice.
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- happened in a public bathroom on first floor of nagaworld
- get your point but if 600k are missing I reckon it's fair to assume it's about the Benjamins (just my personal view on this of course)

anyway hope they get that scumbag (not too high expectations though)
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Cambodia News; Phnom Penh: ¨Police are still hunting for the killer of pawnbroker, Ung Chung Gek Chea Kong Si, at the first NagaWorld Casino, who was robbed and stabbed to death in the first floor bathroom, at around 10pm on Tuesday, January 16, 2023, in Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh.

Although, after the murder and robbery occurred, the suspect was clearly identified through security cameras, so far, he has been escaping safely from the authorities.
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The victim had three sons and a daughter, and she was reportedly separated from her ex-husband,Brigadier General Chan Sour, deputy director of the Anti-Gambling Crime Department.
Mr. Chan Sour, her ex-husband, cried because his children are motherless, and he posted this message on social media, saying :
" First of all, this is the most painful time of my life, but now the authorities are doing their utmost to catch the killer and punish him according to the law.
Please, if anyone has any Information at all, report it to the nearest authority or provide information to me through the phone number 070666777. I will thank you when this person is caught and punished for my (ex)wife's death."
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And nobody finds anything fishy that a potentially ex-scorned husband who happens to work in an anti-gambling crime department, presumably with access to gambling criminals, had an ex-wife murdered in a casino? What are the chances of that ... quick, better put out a consilatory FB post.

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