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PHNNOM PENH, April 3 — Fraudsters running cyberscam operations in Cambodia could face life in prison after the Senate approved a new law today targeting criminals involved in the multibillion-dollar illicit industry.<\/p>\n

The Southeast Asian nation has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running fake romantic relationship and cryptocurrency investment schemes in which scammers—some willing, others trafficked—defraud internet users around the world.<\/p>\n

Operated out of fortified compounds across the region, the global cyberscam industry has reached “industrial proportions”, with estimates of its annual revenues as high as US$64 billion, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.<\/p>\n

Under the law approved today, ringleaders of cyberscam centres that engage in human trafficking, detention and torture will face up to 20-year prison sentences and a fine of up to two billion riel (US$500,000).<\/p>\n

If their operations lead to the death of one or more people, scam centre bosses could face life in prison.<\/p>\n

“Our goal is to eliminate scams,” Cambodian justice minister Koeut Rith said during a press conference.<\/p>\n

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A draft of the law—the first of its kind that aims to stamp out transnational cyberscam operations in Cambodia—was initially approved by the government in March.<\/p>\n

A joint statement by UN experts in May said that “hundreds of thousands of people of various nationalities are trapped and forced to carry out online fraud”.<\/p>\n

Several countries have enacted anti-cyberscam laws to combat the rise of online fraud, romance and cryptocurrency scams, with con artists in Singapore facing 24 strokes of caning for serious cases.<\/p>\n

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet told AFP in February that scam centres were destroying his country’s economy and giving the nation a bad name, vowing to “clean this out”.<\/p>\n

Authorities have pledged to close all online scam centres by the end of April, but analysts have said the government’s crackdown on the industry is unlikely to stamp it out.<\/p>\n

The US State Department last year said that “official complicity, including at senior levels, inhibited effective law enforcement action against trafficking crimes” in Cambodia.<\/p>\n

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Cambodia has denied suggestions that its government is complicit. — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PHNNOM PENH, April 3 — Fraudsters running cyberscam operations in Cambodia could face life in prison after the Senate approved a new law today targeting criminals involved in the multibillion-dollar illicit industry. The Southeast Asian nation has emerged as a hotspot for crime syndicates running fake romantic relationship and cryptocurrency investment schemes in which scammers—some…<\/p>\n

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