{"id":24955,"date":"2021-11-29T07:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T10:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24955"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:26:16","slug":"police-rescue-2-thai-citizens-from-gambling-ring-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/police-rescue-2-thai-citizens-from-gambling-ring-in-cambodia","title":{"rendered":"Police rescue 2 Thai citizens from gambling ring in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers in Cambodia have rescued two teens in another operation to free trafficked Thais from gambling rings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia.-<strong>\u00a0Police in Cambodia have rescued two Thai citizens\u00a0<\/strong>from an online gambling ring. <strong>Those rescued were aged 16 and 18 <\/strong>and were forced to work towards a monthly target of THB1m. They were told they would be offered to other groups if they couldn&#8217;t bring in the target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bangkok Post reported that police worked with the Royal Thai Embassy in Cambodia and other agencies to find one of the Thai citizens, a teenage girl who was sent to Sihanoukville and then sold to a company in Koh Kong. Benjapon Rodsawas, director of the Immigration Department of Trat Province said the Cambodian border agency agreed to bring the victims back through the Ban Hat border crossing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, police in Cambodia rescued\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/103-thai-citizens-rescued-from-gambling-ring-in-cambodia\">103 Thai citizens<\/a>\u00a0from a Chinese-run online gambling ring.\u00a0According to a Thai police official responsible for overseeing anti-human trafficking operations, Thai and Cambodian officials cooperated in an operation in the southern Cambodian province of Pursat.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also revealed&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodians-forced-to-work-at-illegal-casino-in-sihanoukville\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three Cambodian citizens<\/a>&nbsp;were held against their will by a human trafficker and forced to work at an illegal casino in Sihanoukville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers in Cambodia have rescued two teens in another operation to free trafficked Thais from gambling rings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Cambodian authorities, in cooperation with Thai officials, have conducted further operations to rescue trafficked individuals, including two Thai teenagers, from illicit online gambling rings. These victims were reportedly forced to meet substantial monthly targets under duress, highlighting persistent challenges in regulatory oversight and enforcement against illegal B2C operations within the region. This incident underscores the critical need for robust governance frameworks to combat human trafficking and protect vulnerable populations exploited by unregulated gaming activities.","focusai_entities":"Royal Thai Embassy, Immigration Department of Trat Province, Benjapon Rodsawas","focusai_location":"Cambodia, Thailand, Sihanoukville, Koh Kong, Pursat","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-border Enforcement Efficacy","query":"What specific enhancements to cross-border regulatory cooperation and intelligence sharing are being implemented to dismantle these sophisticated human trafficking and illegal gambling networks?"},{"label":"Operator Due Diligence","query":"How are legitimate B2B and B2C iGaming operators in regulated markets strengthening their due diligence processes to ensure their supply chains and partnerships are not inadvertently linked to illicit operations in regions like Cambodia?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-24955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24965,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions\/24965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}