S. Korean men fabricated kidnapping story to escape debts: Cambodia police

Officers question the two South Korean nationals at the Pailin provincial police headquarters on June 20. - POLICE

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Two South Korean men who reported to their consulate claiming that they had been abducted were actually fabricating the story to shirk responsibility for paying the salaries of their employees at a casino in Pailin province, according to deputy provincial police chief Sanh Nam.

Nam said that after the God of Wealth Casino employees protested for payment of their two years of unpaid wages, the pair phoned the consulate in Siem Reap province claiming that an unspecified ransom had been demanded for their safe return.