Feb 20, 2020 | agapewebsite.org | by Aimee
After months on the run, AIM SWAT and Phnom Penh Police were able to capture and arrest a man suspected of trafficking 40 men and women to Saudi Arabia last April for labor and sex. All of the victims managed to return home, most commonly thanks to assistance from their families.
The case was brought to our attention by a girl who had escaped a brothel in Saudi Arabia and made her way home. The suspect used his school in Phnom Penh to lure and trick her and the other victims into paying him $2,000 each with the promise of training that would lead to a job in South Korea.
Once he received the payments, the man claimed all the positions were full and offered to instead send them to Saudi Arabia to work in beauty salons and factories. Instead, the women were taken to a massage parlor and forced to have sex with customers while the men were made to distribute fliers on the street.
As victims escaped and came back to Cambodia, the suspect closed down his school before he could be arrested and a manhunt then ensued, lasting several months until his arrest on December 23, 2019. He will await trial for human trafficking-related offenses from jail while our legal team will represent all the victims.
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2 comments
Happening from a school makes it more dangerous cause it destroys kids life.
What was the name of this man?
Why is there no report of this bust in the cambodian local news in any of the 4 largest local news outlets?
Maybe I’m just stupid but I can’t find a single press release, news story, interview with the local cambodian police about this bust.
And if you look back to the day this occurred and the following days there are much more mundane news stories that are cover stories and widely reported. This story appears nowhere except for here and on agape.
Would somebody please post or send a link to something? Anything?
Your heroic work needs to be publicized and recognized!!!
I promise you the good people of Cambodia care about this abhorrent crime in their community!
If this crime is so deep that the police involved with stopping it and the local media and every reporter in Cambodia and every reporter around the world is refusing to even acknowledge these great successes then there’s something really wrong going on.
We need to get to the bottom of this because it seems to be happening all over the globe wherever your great work is being done!!!!