A policeman stands outside a house that was raided yesterday in Tuol Svay Prey 1 commune in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district.
TAIPEI (AFP) – Nearly 600 people, mostly Taiwanese and Chinese, were rounded up across Asia for suspected massive online fraud in a rare example of regional police coordination, officials said Friday.
Taiwanese police said 598 suspects, including 410 Taiwanese and 181 Chinese nationals, were nabbed in a carefully planned operation involving law enforcers from half a dozen countries.
They were detained in Taiwan, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand on Thursday for allegedly running Internet and telephone scams mainly targeting mainland Chinese, said Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau.
In Indonesia and Cambodia, 177 and 166 people respectively were held. Taiwan said it expected Cambodia to deport many of the detainees to the island later Friday.
Cambodia's Interior Ministry said in a statement the crackdown was made "in collaboration with the ministry of public security of the People's Republic of China".
The nationwide raids in Cambodia followed numerous victim complaints, a police spokesman said, adding that the suspects had "many tricks" to extort funds.
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