Chen Neng-chuan, 31, and Lu Tsu-hsien, 34, were arrested after broadcasting live on Facebook earlier this week in which they were seen being arrested and beaten by security officers in a building in Sihanoukville where there was allegedly a cybercrime center, the Preah Sihanouk provincial court said in a statement.
According to the Taiwanese press agency Central News Agency (CNA), one of the men broadcast a live video on Monday in which he claimed that he had accessed an “illegal online scam center.”
In this video, he was seen being chased and beaten by attackers who did not appear.
In a second video released the next day, he showed his injuries and had been robbed, tied up and assaulted with a stun gun, before he managed to escape, according to CNA.
“The two men entered Cambodia to produce slanderous videos related to human trafficking, detention with torture, rape and the sale of human organs,” the court stated.
Both were found guilty of “incitement to create chaos in public security”, in a trial that took place on Thursday.
The court sentenced them to two years in prison and a fine of about $2,000 between them, according to the statement.
Several criminal networks have created multiple structures to carry out scams on the internet, in Cambodia and other countries such as Burma.
According to a UN report, hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia are forced by criminal gangs to carry out online scams, in many cases under threats of torture and sexual violence.
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2024-02-18 20:31:47