Cross-border blitz: Thai cops crack down on cybercriminal nationals in Cambodia

Following a number of cases involving Thais being duped into working for cybercriminal gangs operating in Cambodia, the neighbouring country’s police have cast a net to seize nationals who are involved in such activities.

Top officials from the Thai Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT) and the Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry met top brass in Cambodia earlier this week to discuss the extradition of cybercriminals believed to be hiding in the Kingdom. “A married couple was arrested on February 3 in Thailand’s Sa Kaew province for allegedly coordinating the transfer of Thais to work at two call centre gangs in Cambodia.

This operation is reportedly overseen by a Chinese gang leader,” The Nation reported Police General Damrongsak Kittipraphat, deputy national police chief and director of the PCT, as saying. “The PCT is tracking down other accomplices and has called on the court to issue arrest warrants for 71 individuals involved with two cybercriminal gangs believed to be hiding in Cambodia.”

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