Mondulkiri Compounds Raided, as Victims Tell Their Stories
Armed authorities enter an office within the Mondulkiri Chinese Commercial Building in the province’s Sen Monorom city, in a photo posted to AKP on April 14, 2026
In an article for Mekong Independent, Mech Dara writes about the raiding of an online scam center in Mondulkiri, Cambodia.
The Mondulkiri provincial court charged four people in what appears to be the first use of the law on combatting online scams after a raid in the provincial capital.
Following a raid on a business called “Mondulkiri Chinese Commercial Building” on April 10, authorities detained four people they suspected of managing the scam business. The Mondulkiri court prosecutor identified these people as Chen Binglian, a Chinese national and general manager; Cheng Weng Chong, a Chinese national who managed Indian and Pakistani teams; Hsu Daril, a Myanmar national managing Myanmar teams; and Sittichai Saelee, a Thai national who managed Thai teams.
The four people were charged with organizing or managing an online fraud center under article 5, paragraph 3, point 1 of the law on combatting online scams, the first charge announced publicly under the law that was passed earlier this month. Persons charged on this count face up to 10 years in prison and 1 billion riels (almost US$250,000) in fines, according to a translation of the draft law reviewed by Mekong Independent.
An unnamed spokesman for the Mondulkiri court prosecutor wrote in a statement dated April 19 that he had charged the four after reviewing a report filed two days earlier by the Mondulkiri provincial police, which investigated after the April 10 raid. Government news agency AKP reported that the raid was initiated after authorities received a request from the Indian Embassy in Phnom Penh to look for Indian nationals in the location. Authorities found 262 foreigners of nine nationalities in the complex and confiscated 420 desktop computers and 1,450 mobile phones.
