Cambodian police arrest 61 Chinese nationals for telephone fraud charges

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Cambodian police arrest 61 Chinese nationals for telephone fraud charges

(Xinhua) 19:42, September 03, 2013

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Cambodian police on Tuesday raided two locations and arrested 61 Chinese nationals, who were involved in telephone scam, Lt. Gen. Chhay Sinarith, chief of the Interior Ministry's internal security department, said.

One location is in Phnom Penh with 44 Chinese nationals and the other one is in eastern Svay Rieng province's Bavet city with 17 Chinese.

He said among the 61 arrested people, 50 are from Chinese Mainland and 11 from China's Taiwan region.

A number of telephones and computers, which were used by the suspects for threatening and extorting money from people in China, were confiscated.

"They were arrested for the charges of using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol, a type of internet phone service) from Cambodia to threaten and extort money from victims in China," he told Xinhua, adding that they would be deported to face legal action in China.

Telephone fraud has become a social security problem in China. Suspects often use overseas servers to make phone calls from overseas, making it more difficult for the Chinese police to trace them.

On Thursday last week, China's Xiamen Intermediate People's Court sentenced 56 Chinese nationals to between 27 months and 12 years in prison for their involvement in a telecom scam in Cambodia, where they were arrested in 2011.

According to the report, the group would telephone their victims in China, pretending to be court or police officials claiming that the victim's bank account had been breached, and would tell the victims they should transfer their money to a separate "safe account."

（Editor：WangXin、Hongyu）