FILE PHOTO: Motorists ride past a branch of the Prince Bank in Phnom Penh on October 15, 2025. In the last six months, Cambodia has busted 118 locations across 18 municipal-provinces, detaining 4,983 suspects from 23 different nations. - AFP
PHNOM PENH: In the first 10 days of January, the authorities raided seven alleged online scam operations, six in Phnom Penh and one in Siem Reap province, according to the Ad Hoc Commission for Combating Technology Crimes (CCTC).
These operations led to the apprehension of 39 foreign suspects: 32 South Koreans, four Chinese and three Nepalese, and the seizure of numerous pieces of evidence. These figures do not include the arrests of Prince Group founder Chen Zhi and his associates, which was a separate collaboration between Cambodian and Chinese authorities, explained the CCTC.
Three Nepalese were detained during the January 10 raid in Siem Reap. Gurung Biyana, Tumrok Sain and Sapkota Mohan are accused of aggravated group fraud with organised intent.
The three were apprehended after authorities determined that they had disguised themselves as a loan company, operating from a location in Borei De Premier, located in Kruos village, Svay Dangkum commune, in Siem Reap town.
They had reportedly been targeting various nations with technology-based scam offences since October last year.
In the last six months of 2025, the CCTC claims to have busted 118 locations across 18 municipal-provinces, detaining 4,983 suspects from 23 different nations.
The authorities deported 4,039 illegal foreigners to their home countries and initiated judicial procedures in 35 cases, to prosecute 168 “masterminds” and their accomplices.
The CCTC stated that the national mechanism has tightened law enforcement by local authorities, courts and prosecutors at all levels, strengthened foreign national management, especially for those entering Cambodia illegally, to ensure that no illegal activities, technology-based scams or any form of human trafficking or sex trafficking occur.
Meanwhile, authorities are also cooperating with partner countries worldwide to investigate, suppress and prevent all forms of illegal activity. - The Phnom Penh Post/ANN
