CAMBODIA (TR) – Authorities have revealed that 16 Japanese nationals have been detained at a facility believed to be a base for a fraud operation within the southern metropolis of Sihanoukville, studies TBS News (Dec. 16).
According to the Japanese Embassy in Phnom Penh, they obtained a name from native authorities on December 11 informing them that 16 Japanese nationals had been detained at a base for a hoop conducting tokushu sagi (specialised fraud).
Perpetrators of this crime goal a sufferer over the phone and impersonate an authority determine or relative to defraud cash from them.
The Japanese nationals are suspected of being concerned within the ring. The embassy will verify detailed info and work with native authorities to reply.
In current years, Cambodia has seen the event of casinos by Chinese corporations in varied components of the nation, together with Sihanoukville. As nicely, there was a gradual crackdown on bases for worldwide crimes, together with specialised fraud, and the arrest of Japanese nationals has been rising.