Nine indicted for human trafficking in Cambodia


TAIWANESE prosecutors have indicted nine suspects on human trafficking charges for allegedly luring 88 people to Cambodia to toil in online scam syndicates that have become a regional scourge.

Online “boiler room” rackets have long had a presence across South-East Asia but in recent months, more details have emerged of people being trafficked and forced to work.

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