ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia

Rights Groups Links Cambodian Security Companies to Scam Compounds

According to a new report by Amnesty International, many Cambodian enablers of the country’s scam industry remain at large.

An aerial view of high-rise hotels in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, a town that has reportedly become a hotbed of online scamming operations.

From the outset, it must be said that Cambodia has delivered on promises to liquidate large-scale online scamming compounds, a key plank in the truce that ended last year’s border conflict with Thailand and a much-desired result ahead of its hosting the Francophonie Summit of French-speaking nations in mid-November.

Mopping up the smaller operations continues, with regular government updates including the arrests and deportation of foreign scammers and alleged organized crime figures, who during the COVID-19 years turned industrialized online fraud into a multibillion-dollar racket.

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