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12 March 2018

Phnom Penh: On March 12 at 11:30 am, the immigration police raided a condominium located at Street 336, Sangkat Beung Salang, Phnom Penh.
100 Chinese nationals, including 19 women, were taken into custody and held for questioning. They are suspected of belonging to a Chinese gang of online VoIP scammers.

The crackdown was ordered and overseen by the prosecutor of Phnom Penh Court, Mr. Seang Sok, the Director of Immigration Department, Mr Khun Sombou, and the Director of Investigation, Mr. Ukhai Sela.

Frank My Bent, when you first made mention of this possibility a bit ago, I didn't share your optimism. Well, I was wrong and you were right, here's hoping they've got Snooky in their sights.

Cambodia arrests 100 suspects over China telecoms fraud
(Mar 12, 2018 05:30AM ET)
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian police on Monday arrested 100 Chinese people suspected of running a telecoms scam to defraud victims in China, a senior official said.

China has been battling telecoms fraud for years, with the losses to victims running into billions of dollars, authorities in Beijing say. Hundreds of suspected scammers were arrested in Cambodia last year.

Monday's arrests at a seven-story condominium in the capital of Phnom Penh included 81 Chinese men and 19 women, said General Uk Haiseila, chief of the Immigration Investigation Bureau.

Police video of the raid showed the suspects seated in front of laptops on rows of desks in a room with curtains drawn.

Cambodia, a staunch ally of China, has previously deported suspected scammers to China, even those holding Taiwan passports. Cambodia, like Beijing, does not recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. [nL4N1Q60W0]

Uk Haiseila did not say which countries' passports the arrested individuals held, or if there were immediate plans to deport them.
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Unless they paid rent upfront someone is out a bunch of cash and probably a hefty cleaning bill too. Hopefully they don't get compensated as a warning to other landlords, would cure half the problem if they didn't rent out an entire apartment building to one sketchy group.

those prc chicks

There's an apartments building in 348 that I'm hoping has some police interest soon. It's either an illegal casino, a giant brothel, a VoIP extortion racket, or a massive drug den. Or all four.

There’s shit loads of mosquitoes around recently.
I gassed, swatted, squashed, electrocuted at least 100 today.

Are they bothered?
No.
There’s 1.4 billion of them.

illegal ones to go first, follow by small ones, lastly when hainan is done deal, big ones will follow, big ones can stay if they want to but with no physical walk in gamblers, i suspect they will go too

bolueeleh wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:02 pm
illegal ones to go first, follow by small ones, lastly when hainan is done deal, big ones will follow, big ones can stay if they want to but with no physical walk in gamblers, i suspect they will go too

Right, so all the VOIP scammers are going to move to Hainan? Even though there will soon be three international undersea cables terminating here in Cambodia within the next year? Making the internet significantly cheaper and police bribes staying the same. Hainan already had holiday resorts before they started building them in Shv, and their gambling industry still doesn't even exist on paper. You are a perennial optimist, that's for sure.

I read that it’s been talked about since 2010.