{"id":777033636,"date":"2025-10-24T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777033636"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:51:03","slug":"president-lee-orders-all-out-war-on-scams-drugs-and-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/president-lee-orders-all-out-war-on-scams-drugs-and-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"South Korea to include online gambling in crackdown on transnational crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An emergency meeting was held yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

South Korea.- President Lee Jae Myung<\/strong> has ordered a crackdown on transnational crime<\/strong>, including scams, online gambling and drug trafficking. Lee issued a directive during an emergency interagency meeting on Thursday, October 23<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung<\/strong>, the government will set up an integrated consultative body and a special response unit comprising intelligence agencies and relevant ministries. The Foreign Ministry has pledged to step up victim support and information-sharing via diplomatic missions, while the Justice Ministry said it will streamline the extradition of international criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) is to increase intelligence collection on overseas crimel groups, and the FSC proposed measures to block the use of illegal bank accounts in criminal operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annouuncement comes decision follows the case of a South Korean college student who was kidnapped and tortured to death in a scam centre in Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> South Korea pushes for ASEAN crackdown on Cambodian scam networks<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An emergency meeting was held yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2395,"featured_media":777033638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung has ordered an interagency crackdown on transnational crime, specifically targeting online gambling, scams, and drug trafficking, following a student's death in Cambodia. The government plans to establish a special response unit, enhance victim support, streamline extradition, boost intelligence gathering, and implement measures to block illegal bank accounts.","focusai_entities":"Lee Jae Myung, Kang Yu-jung, Foreign Ministry, Justice Ministry, National Intelligence Service, FSC","focusai_location":"South Korea, Cambodia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.98), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.98), investor_analyst (0.92), supplier_vendor (0.88), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"FSC Implementation Details","query":"What specific measures will the FSC implement to identify and block financial flows associated with illicit online gambling operations, and what is the projected timeline for these controls?"},{"label":"Cross-border Enforcement Strategy","query":"How will the proposed integrated consultative body and special response unit coordinate with international law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies in ASEAN nations to dismantle transnational online gambling networks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338],"tags":[30,24828,24957],"class_list":["post-777033636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","tag-cambodia","tag-law-enforcement","tag-transnational-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033636","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\/2395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777033636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777033649,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033636\/revisions\/777033649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777033638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777033636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777033636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777033636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}