Cambodian authorities have clamped down on some global cyber gangs in recent weeks by raiding their compounds and freeing more than a thousand enslaved workers, but human rights groups say those criminal organisations have simply moved their operations to other areas.
“It’s decentralising criminality so it can be sustained,” said a human rights investigator who did not want to be named.
Investigations by Nikkei Asia and other media outlets over the past year, with more than a dozen victims from such operations as well as several rescuers, have uncovered a vast illicit scam industry that has taken root in the Southeast Asian state.
