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Interpreter for Chinese scam-gang leader arrested

Police arrest Surachai Sae Jang, 27, centre, an interpreter and close aide of the Chinese leader of a call centre operating in Cambodia. The suspect, whose face was blurred by police, was arrested in Chon Buri. (Photo: IDMB Facebook)

Police have arrested an interpreter for the Chinese leader of a phone-scam gang based in Cambodia, after the man had escaped and fled back to Thailand.

The gang lured people into investing in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme and had swindled its victims out of at least 16 million baht so far, police said. 

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