Scams, Human Trafficking Thrived at Bokor Mountain Behind Tycoon’s Luxury Hotel
Every day, crowds of tourists visit a popular sightseeing spot beside the five-star Thansur Sokha hotel and casino atop Bokor mountain to snap photos of temples, colonial ruins and the Kampot province coastline.
But behind the grand facade of the hotel owned by tycoon Sok Kong’s Sokimex Investment Group, scam companies involved in human trafficking have found a refuge in a cluster of heavily guarded buildings, according to Taiwanese law enforcement, evidence from victims detained there, and advocates directly involved in rescues of victims from the compound.
The Bokor compound is a “stronghold” for online scam companies and human trafficking, said an officer with the Taiwan National Police Agency’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB). In charge of rescuing Taiwanese nationals trapped in Cambodia, the officer requested anonymity to protect his safety.
Between August and December 2022, Taiwanese law enforcement arrested 12 people in Taiwan linked to the “Big Fatty” gang which allegedly trafficked 31 Taiwanese nationals. They were among the more than 430 Taiwanese nationals rescued from across Cambodia in 2022, the CIB officer said.
Two CIB officers confirmed to CamboJA the Big Fatty gang had trafficked victims to the compound at Preah Monivong Bokor National Park.
While the numerous human trafficking groups in nearby Sihanoukville have been well-documented, news of the Bokor scam compound has gone largely under the radar except for references in Chinese language media, especially in Taiwan, and a December Khmer language report in Radio Free Asia. Yet the compound, among many in Cambodia where an estimated 100,000 people have been trafficked, was known to house scam groups as early as 2018, when Chinese police arrested 91 Chinese nationals involved in online scams.
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It's been that way there for years. Guards at the Gate etc. I still don't know what this huge hangar's purpose next to it is.
Just visited Bokor and found: Allmost all buildings that housed the Chinese Online Scam Gangs looked empty, some had the courtains drawn open and the skeletons of the bunk beds without matraz lurked in the back. Driving around behind the once shiny Casino Hotel which now looks like a rotten ruin there seems to be one last "guarded compound" still in business at the very right side of the Casino Hotel. Huge bags of trash proved that some life still existed in there.
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I think it was just used for materials while the new casino and that borey were built.Rusguest wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:33 amI still don't know what this huge hangar's purpose next to it is.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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