Chinese held over telecoms scams
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CAMBODIAN authorities have arrested nearly 400 Chinese nationals this month on suspicion of operating a telecoms scam to defraud victims in China, police said yesterday.
The move is part of a regional crackdown as China battles phone and Internet scams that have cost billions of dollars in losses, with fraudsters posing as government officials to target everyone from the elderly to businessmen with legal problems.
Cambodian police said 225 Chinese nationals, 25 of them women, were arrested in Phnom Penh, the capital, on Wednesday. Immigration authorities said another 154 Chinese, including three from Taiwan, were arrested on August 2 in the provinces of Siem Reap and Banteay Meanchey.
Those arrested were suspected of using Internet voice calls for an extortion scheme, said Thou Saroeun, deputy director of the anti-terrorism police department.
“We are processing the case, and we don’t know yet when this will move to deportation,” he said.
Cambodian media published pictures of a police raid showing workers with their hands above their heads in front of rows of laptops.
In recent years, Cambodia has deported to China more than 600 Chinese arrested on suspicion of telecoms scams. In July, Cambodia sent 105 Chinese suspects back to China.
Last month, Indonesia detained more than 150 Chinese nationals accused of a scam that pulled in an estimated US$450 million, by tricking victims into paying to make legal cases go away.
Since 2011, China’s mainland and Taiwan have cooperated in investigating fraud in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and elsewhere. Thousands of suspects have been arrested since.
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