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Scam Centres 'Destroying' Cambodia's Economy, Pm Tells Afp
- On Wednesday, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet told AFP that scam centres are harming the country, saying `The scam network, what we call the black economy, is destroying our honest economy. It has put a bad reputation on Cambodia`.
- In recent years, Cambodia has emerged as a growing cyberscam hub with dozens of large scam farms, hosting an estimated 100,000 workers and generating $12.5 billion annually, half its formal GDP, a United States Institute of Peace report said.
- Scam operators typically deceive victims into relationships or crypto schemes, then force them to run fraud operations, with trafficked workers reporting beatings and torture in prison-like compounds, Amnesty International said.
- Interior Ministry spokesman Touch Sokhak said 2,412 people were deported between the start of this year and 12 February, as the Cambodian government aims to clear scam operations by April.
- Hun Manet denied Cambodia depends on scams and said authorities must 'clean this out', but industry experts question the crackdown's authenticity and note humanitarian challenges from Cambodian police policy and limited IOM and NGO support.
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Scam centres 'destroying' Cambodia's economy, PM tells AFP
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Wednesday that scam centres were destroying his country's economy and giving the nation a bad name -- pushing back on allegations of government connivance.
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(Dan Tri Newspaper) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on February 25 that online scam centers are undermining the country's economy and damaging its reputation, and pledged to crack down on them.
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