Vietnamese man ‘sold son’s friends to Cambodia’

A habitual criminal in Hai Phong is now under investigation for allegedly tricking his son’s friends and trafficking them to Cambodia to work in a casino. According to police in the northern city, Nguyen Van Anh, 45, had been jailed four times for various crimes.

During his last stint, he got in touch with two inmates nicknamed Vang and Cau, and met them on his release in 2020. By then they were working for a gang that smuggled people aged 18-40 to Cambodia for working, and offered intermediaries commissions. Anh decided to join them, targeted a group of his son’s friends and approached four boys aged 16-17, all Hai Phong residents. He developed close relationships with the boys and even offered to be their “adoptive father.”

They had dropped out of school and wanted to find jobs to support their families, and Anh capitalized on this to persuade them to go to Cambodia for work. The police said that in late March he told the four that a friend of his, based in Cambodia, was recruiting young workers and promised them salaries of VND18-20 million ($770-855) a month. He then contacted Vang and Cau and arranged for them to smuggle the boys into Cambodia.

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