An Giang police expands investigation after Cambodian casino escape case

The Department of Public Security of An Giang province said on August 21 that the case in which 40 Vietnamese had illegally entered the country after an escape from a Cambodian casino shows signs of human trafficking and organisation of illegal migration for others.
An Giang police expands investigation after Cambodian casino escape case ảnh 1Nguyen Thi Le (Photo: VNA)
An Giang (VNA) – The Department of Public Security of An Giangprovince said on August 21 that the case in which 40 Vietnamese had illegallyentered the country after an escape from a Cambodian casino shows signs ofhuman trafficking and organisation of illegal migration for others.

Therefore, the provincial police are collecting informationand documents to arrest related criminals, thus contributing to stabilising orderand security, especially in border areas.

On August 20, the Investigation Security Agency of theprovincial Department of Public Security said that it issued decisions totemporarily detain Nguyen Thi Le (born in 1980) and Le Van Danh (bornin 1988), both residing in Long Binh township, An Phu district, on the charge of organisingillegal exit for others.

An Giang police expands investigation after Cambodian casino escape case ảnh 2Le Van Danh (Photo: VNA)
The two confessed that they had organised illegal exit forsix among the above 40 arrested people, and many others.

On August 18, 40 Vietnamese nationals, including five women,were arrested by An Giang Border Guards after illegally entering the countryfrom Cambodia.

According to their testimony, a total of 42 people tried toescape from a casino in Sampeou Poun commune, Kaoh Thom district, Kandalprovince in Cambodia and swam across Binh Ghi River to return to Vietnam.However, one person went missing and another, a 16-year-old male from Kon Tumprovince, was caught by the casino staff in his attempt to escape. On August20, a body suspected of the missing person in this case was found in Binh Ghiriver.

They said they had previously entered Cambodia to work at acasino. Their job was to make online games and go to social media websites atthe instruction of the people at the casino but they were constantly forced towork overtime without any payment.

Recently, many Vietnamese have been tricked into working inCambodia. They are often promised jobs with lavish payments but are actuallysold to gambling and virtual currency trading organisations where they areexploited.

Many people have to pay a large sum of money in order toreturn home.

In the first six months of this year, the Vietnamese policecoordinated with Cambodian authorities to rescue more than 250 cases of peoplebeing tricked into working illegally./.
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