PHNOM PENH: The Sen Sok District unified command, in cooperation with the Anti-Cybercrime Department, raided two locations in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, discovering nearly 2,000 phones, as well as a commercial quantity of computer parts suspected of being linked to online scams.
The Administration reported on July 16 that the operations took place at two suspected sites.
The first was located at flat G-13 within the Ratana Plaza market compound in Chong Thnal Khang Koet village, Teuk Thla commune.
The second took place in Borey Canadia, House D21, in Trung Moan village, Ou Baek K’am commune.
At the first site, authorities detained one Chinese national and confiscated eight large cartons of keyboards, 19 of motherboards, two of network cables, four of phones, five of laptops, and four of phone-to-computer adapters.
The second saw two Chinese men detained and 1,740 mobile phones, along with SIM cards and numerous phone spare parts, seized.
Authorities suspect that the sites served as wholesale suppliers of equipment to scam networks, many of which have fragmented into smaller, easier to conceal operations, in an attempt to escape current widespread suppression efforts.
“According to forensic analysis by specialist officers from the Anti-Cybercrime Department, [the suspects] are suspected of involvement in the storage and supply of equipment for online scam offences,” the district administration reported. - The Phnom Penh Post/ANN
