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Dozens of Thais arrested in call-centre raids in Cambodia

Thai and Cambodian police meet ahead of raids on two locations in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, on July 6. Twenty-eight call-centre suspects were arrested on that day. (Photo supplied)

Eighty-nine Thais were arrested during raids on call-centres operating scams from Cambodia and will be repatriated to Thailand for legal proceedings, deputy national police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas said on Monday.

Pol Gen Damrongsak, as director of the Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT), was speaking in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

He was accompanying Digital Economy and Society Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, who is there to sign a memorandum of understanding with his Cambodian counterpart on mutual cooperation for the prevention and suppression of cybercrime.

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