https://www.scmp.com/rss/524743/feed The latest news and top stories on the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. A Geneva-based international non-governmental organisation, the GI-TOC is dedicated to combating transnational organised crime. Its main areas of focus include providing analysis and insights, developing strategies and building resilience against criminal networks. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Maria Siow Maria Siow Cambodia’s first law targeting scam centres, passed after mounting international pressure over the country’s massive fraud and trafficking economy, may do little to curb it unless authorities go after the officials and networks that have long enabled it, analysts have warned. Approved by parliament on Friday, the law takes aim at an industry estimated to generate up to US$19 billion annually and to have trafficked as many as 200,000 workers into compounds across the country. Justice Minister... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3349298/cambodia-has-new-law-targeting-scams-it-just-another-paper-reform?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3349298/cambodia-has-new-law-targeting-scams-it-just-another-paper-reform?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:17 +0000 Aidan Jones,Don Pathan Aidan Jones,Don Pathan Taking a short cut through Pattaya’s “Scammer Alley”, a neon maze of bars, hotpot restaurants and 24-hour Korean barbecue joints, taxi driver May shakes her head. The money washing around this Thai resort is so thick with fraud that even her own bank account has been frozen. “They pay with QR codes linked to mule accounts,” she said, referring to bank accounts legally registered under Thai names but secretly controlled by the foreign cybercriminals who have turned this part of Southeast Asia... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3335392/southeast-asias-billion-dollar-scam-industry-refuses-die-everyone-gets-cut?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3335392/southeast-asias-billion-dollar-scam-industry-refuses-die-everyone-gets-cut?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:13 +0000 Jevans Nyabiage Jevans Nyabiage Chinese nationals are being targeted by kidnappers in African countries as more investors are drawn to the continent in areas ranging from infrastructure development to minerals extraction. Cases of kidnapping for ransom are being seen across Africa. China’s embassy in South Africa issued a warning on Sunday about a rise in kidnappings of Chinese women. In Somalia and Ghana, piracy cases targeting Chinese fishing vessels have involved ransom demands. And the Democratic Republic of Congo and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3317516/chinese-nationals-africa-vulnerable-kidnappings-cases-rise?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3317516/chinese-nationals-africa-vulnerable-kidnappings-cases-rise?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:00:09 +0000