Twenty-nine Chinese nationals were arrested in Cambodia on Monday on suspicion of operating a telecoms scam to defraud victims in China, police said, and will be deported next week.
Cambodia has deported 500 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals in recent years in a crackdown on internet and telecoms scams orchestrated from Cambodia, according to police.
Uk Heisela, investigation chief at Cambodia’s immigration department, said China would send a plane to pick up the suspects next week.
“They will be deported once all documents are done. China will pick them up within a week, at the latest,” Uk Heisela said.
Cambodia sent home 74 Chinese nationals on June 6 who were wanted on suspicion of extorting money from people in China, the first such expulsion this year.