A screen showing the website "Hades Cafe" — a platform widely exploited as an illegal recruitment channel by Cambodia-based criminal syndicates — is displayed during a parliamentary audit by the National Assembly’s Public Administration and Security Committee at the Korean National Police Agency in Seoul on Oct. 17. - Photo: Newsis
SEOUL: The South Korean government on Thursday (Nov 27) imposed its largest-ever unilateral sanctions on 132 organisations and 15 individuals tied to Cambodia-based transnational criminal networks that targeted South Korean citizens.
The measure came as part of a whole-of-government effort to address a rapid surge in the number of South Koreans lured to Cambodia by fraudulent high-paying job offers and subjected to associated violent crimes, including kidnappings and forced confinement in criminal compounds.
