Scam Trafficking, Rescues on the Rise: Regional Media

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Eighty-nine Thais were removed from Cambodian scam compounds, Malaysia said it was working on the rescues of 60 nationals, and Vietnamese workers were brutally beaten in Cambodia, according to recent news reports from around the region.

 

The reports follow ongoing warnings by foreign governments about workers being duped into debt slavery in Cambodia. Last week, Vietnamese authorities told its citizens to be wary of job ads about “light work, high salaries” in Cambodia, as families were being asked to pay between $3,000 to $30,000 to get them out.

 

In Thailand, national police deputy Damrongsak Kittiprapas said on Monday that 89 Thai nationals were removed from four locations in Sihanoukville and another in Poipet in a series of raids, according to the Bangkok Post. Two of the raids, in late June at Jing Cheng hotel and Bolai casino, have already been reported. The three others, dating June 6 and 7, took 28 people from two Sihanoukville locations and 40 from Poipet, the Bangkok Post said.

 

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