Extortion ring -170 Chinese- busted in Sihanoukville

[geovalin]

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

Nearly 170 Chinese nationals were arrested in Preah Sihanouk province on Saturday for allegedly using an internet-based telephone system to extort money from victims back in China, police said yesterday.

Major General Uk Hai Sela, investigations chief at the Ministry of Interior’s Immigration Department, said the 166 suspects – 18 of them women – were arrested with the help of Chinese authorities in raids on a Sihanoukville villa and guesthouse. The suspects are currently being detained for questioning in Phnom Penh.

“They were all Chinese nationals from mainland China,” Hai Sela said yesterday. “They were arrested when our police forces, cooperating with Chinese Interpol police, raided a luxury villa and a guesthouse in Preah Sihanouk province.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/extortion-ring-busted-sihanoukville

[HerbalEd]

The article fails to explain how the ring extorted their victims.

[onionluke]

A lot of cases of phone scams in Hong Kong recently. The perps target individuals with business connections with the mainland , they claim to be police or government investigators who have found irregularities with that business and demand money be wired to an account .

[ggt]

Oh no, the normally depressing and unsanitary Cambodian prisons...will become filled with a mixture of noodles and faeces and ill tempered foreign nationals...

[ozyjon]

They will act like monkeys in the zoo

https://youtu.be/VGP_sBeN2Uk

[cracker1]

Almost all the stories I have read this year about Sihanoukville have been about Rape and Murder so I am somewhat relieved to read this Scam story between Chinese people for a change,