Cambodian and Thai police smash phone scam ring

Cambodian authorities and Thai police broke up a phone scam gang and made several arrests during raids in Preah Sihanouk province on Sunday. Preah Sihanouk police chief Major General Chuon Narin said yesterday that two raids resulted in the arrest of 31 Thai workers. The two locations raided by police were in Sihanoukville and one of them was in a casino.

“Two locations were raided four days ago in cooperation with Thai police,” Maj Gen Narin said, noting that the 31 Thai workers were sent to Phnom Penh.

The sting operation was spearheaded by Interior Ministry’s Internal security department director Major General Sam Vanvireak.

According to Bangkok Post, police detained 61 people – 59 Thais and two Chinese during the raids on a phone scam gang in Sihanoukville. Twenty-eight of them were being treated as key suspects, five others lured into the operation were rescued while  the rest were still being investigated, said Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, director of the Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT), Bangkok Post said.

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