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Webpage capture on the news article of kidnapped, beaten and ransomed in post-crackdown Sihanoukville

This webpage capture shows about before Ko found himself kidnapped, beaten and handcuffed to a bed in a Sihanoukville casino, with survival contingent on delivering his armed captors $120,000 in the next 12 days, the 53-year-old Taiwanese national had responded to a Facebook ad promising a “customer service” job last year, he recalled. After being sold multiple times over the past year, Ko had been freed in March only to quickly become entrapped again inside the newly licensed Xing Tian Di casino owned by well-connected businessman Rithy Raksmei’s K99 Group.

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Field Value
Document type Archived web content
Language of document
  • English
Topics Human trafficking
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Cambodia
Copyright Yes
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Contact

Cambodian Journalists Alliance Association +(855)23 88 23 11 editor@cambojanews.com 19, St. 388, Sangkat Tuol Svay Prey I, Khan Boeng Keng Kang, Phnom Penh.

Author (individual) Cindy Liu
Author (corporate) CamboJA News
Co-author (individual) Jack Brook
Publication place Cambodia
Publisher CamboJA
Publication date 2023
General note

Link to the source: https://cambojanews.com/beaten-handcuffed-and-ransomed-in-post-crackdown-sihanoukville/ Link to the archived webpage: http://web.archive.org/web/20230906020400/https://cambojanews.com/beaten-handcuffed-and-ransomed-in-post-crackdown-sihanoukville/

Legacy reference document Kidnapped_Beaten_and_Ransomed_in_Post-Crackdown_Sihanoukville__01.05.2023.pdf
Keywords Online scam
Date uploaded September 6, 2023, 02:35 (UTC)
Date modified November 2, 2023, 04:39 (UTC)