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Cambodia repatriates 168 Chinese suspects in telecom scams to China

Xinhua, November 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Cambodia deported 168 Chinese suspects involved in telecom swindle cases to China on Tuesday, the National Police's news website said.

"Chinese police had sent two planes to transport those Chinese from Cambodia after Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng signed a letter deporting them from Cambodia to their country," Lt. Gen. Khun Sambo, deputy chief of the Cambodia's General Department of Immigration, was quoted by the website as saying.

He said Cambodian and Chinese police have been continuing cooperation to hunt down the masterminds in transnational telecom frauds.

The deported Chinese, including 19 females, were arrested in three villas in southwestern Preah Sihanouk province on Oct. 31, and a number of computers, telephones and bank cards, which had been used to commit the alleged crimes, had been seized.

Lt. Gen. Khun Sambo said the group will face justice in China.

In telecom scam, fraudsters often use overseas servers to make scam calls to their victims in China, claiming to be court or police officials and warning that the victims' bank accounts had been breached so that they have to transfer the money to a separate safe account. Enditem