26 south Koreans nabbed in joint police raid in Cambodia, one victim rescued


SEOUL (Bernama-Yonhap): Twenty-six South Korean nationals were apprehended during a joint police crackdown at a scam centre in a Cambodia-Vietnam border town last week, with one Korean freed from confinement, police said on Sunday, Yonhap News Agency reported.

A joint team from South Korea and Cambodia on Thursday raided the site, located in the province of Mondulkiri in eastern Cambodia near the Vietnamese border, and took the 26 South Koreans into custody for suspected involvement in scam operations, according to the National Police Agency (NPA).

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