Anna, who has a seven-year-old son at home, said that like many who found themselves in Cambodia's scam operations she was following an offer of legitimate work. She was expecting to be working in a five-star hotel for USD 900 a month. Instead, she was held in a huge compound in Mondulkiri Province on the border with Vietnam and made to join a team running a "job scam" operation targeting Americans and Canadians abc.net.au/news/2026-06-14/a…

【安徽总商会会长刘忍被押解回国】 柬埔寨安徽总商会会长刘忍6月10日下午被遣返回中国。 据《西港日记》网友投稿视频显示，刘忍昨晚已经落地中国。 6月5日下午，刘忍在金边黄山国际大酒店被带走调查。详情点击：jinbiannews.com/archives/967…

Thai SEC Accuses Yim Leak of Failing to Report VGI Share Acquisition Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a criminal complaint against Yim Leak for failing to disclose an acquisition of shares in VGI that pushed holdings above the 5% reporting threshold. The SEC said a fund beneficially owned by Yim acquired newly issued VGI shares on Dec. 3, 2024, increasing its stake beyond 5% of the company's voting rights. Under securities law, Yim was required to file a Form 246-2 disclosure within three business days, by Dec. 9, 2024. The regulator said no such filing was made and referred the case to the Economic Crime Suppression Division for further legal action. The case will proceed through police investigation, prosecutorial review and, if warranted, court proceedings. Yim, a Cambodian businessman and chairman of BIC Group, has been the subject of separate investigations by Thai authorities into alleged money laundering and links to transnational scam networks. Thai authorities have frozen assets and securities accounts allegedly connected to the case, while Yim has denied wrongdoing through his lawyers. The SEC said the VGI disclosure case is a separate matter concerning compliance with securities reporting requirements. #Thailand #Cambodia #YimLeak #Scammer

After the arrests of Prince Group chairman Chen Zhi and Huione Boss Li Xiong, another major figure from Cambodia’s Chinese underground economy has now been detained and handed over to Chinese authorities. His name is Liu Ren (刘忍). huangyan.substack.com/p/afte…

Britain's land registry shows requests for freezing order on luxury properties owned by Yuan Yihua, who holds so-called “golden passports” issued in return for investments in Cyprus, Cambodia and Vanuatu. occrp.org/en/news/uk-targets…

Signs going up on Poipet rentals. 'No computers allowed' on one banner, house rules in Khmer, English, and Indonesian on another, banning online fraud; violators evicted and reported.

In 2024, the financial service Huione Pay lost its license & was liquidated. But customers said it was still running up until April this year, when a key stakeholder was deported. Why? In this article I try to unpack what all happened to Huione Pay & HPay asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/as…

Cambodian payment apps' collapse leaves users fighting to recover funds s.nikkei.com/4ok5LZd

The Cambodian government’s high-profile crackdown on scamming compounds has failed to dismantle the vast majority of sites in the country or protect and support thousands of people subjected to human trafficking, torture and slavery. New report, out now. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

Customers of Huione Pay protested outside the Chinese Embassy Phnom Penh this morning, again asking for intervention to reclaim their funds. So far police have strictly tried to control journalists, scolding me for taking photos & shooing me away. Media sent to me by protestors.