Overview
- The National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee toured the building on Phnom Penh’s outskirts on Wednesday following a July 5 police raid there.
- Dozens of South Koreans detained in that crackdown were flown to Seoul on a chartered flight on Oct. 18 as authorities evaluated whether coercion was involved.
- South Korean police say courts have issued arrest warrants for 49 of the 64 returnees, with additional warrants under consideration.
- Investigators in South Korea accuse the suspects of running romance schemes, bogus investment pitches, or voice phishing targeting people back home.
- Cambodia reports 92 raids across 18 provinces in four months with 3,455 arrests from 20 nationalities, most deemed victims and deported, and 75 alleged organizers charged in court.