After failing to pay rent, airline employees were confined inside their Phnom Penh headquarters.

After a dispute over overdue rent, a Phnom Penh landlord took matters into his own hands and imprisoned employees of a Cambodian airline inside their office.

Today, three cleaning staff members at the JC Airlines office on Mao Tse Toung Street, Sangkat Tuol Svay Prey I, Khan Boeung Keng Kang, Phnom Penh, were going about their daily routines.

However, about 12 p.m., a representative of the building's landlord came into the office and put a number of heavy iron chains across the business's entrance doors.

Authorities called the landlord, who indicated that he went to the company's premises today to demand payment because the owner of JC Airlines had not paid his rent for several months.

He opted to recover the premises by locking the doors after seeing the office seemed to be vacant of equipment and employees.

The landlord said he was unaware that employees were there in the office and returned with a key to the chains, liberating the unhappy cleaning crew.

Authorities have called two persons to the Tuol Svay Prey I Administrative Police Station for additional questioning: a couple and a representative of the landlord.

With a registered capital of $50 million dollars, JC International Airlines was created in 2014 and began operations in March 2017.

It promotes a number of routes from Cambodia to China and Thailand on its website, but none of the tickets appear to be bookable, and there has been no activity on the JC Airlines Facebook page since March 2020.

Credit Source: Khmer Times

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