Chinese man behind drug scam targeting teens nabbed in Cambodia


This photo, provided by the National Intelligence Service on Thursday, shows drugs seized by authorities. - Photo: Yonhap via Khmer Times

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times): A Chinese national suspected of supplying drugs that were used for a high-profile scam case, where young students were deceived into consuming drug-laced drinks, has been arrested in Cambodia, South Korea’s spy agency said Friday in a report by Yonhap.

The National Intelligence Service, which has been probing the case in cooperation with the Cambodian police, said the 38-year-old charged with supplying methamphetamine to the drug ring that produced and distributed the beverages was apprehended in Phnom Penh on Tuesday.

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