This photo taken on Oct. 18, 2025 shows South Korean online scam suspects getting out of a bus at the Techo International Airport in Kandal province, Cambodia. Cambodia deported 64 South Korean online scam suspects, including five women, to their birth country on Friday night, said a news release from Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday. (Agence Kampuchea Presse/Handout via Xinhua)
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia deported 64 South Korean online scam suspects, including five women, to their birth country on Friday night, said a news release from Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday.
The suspects were expelled from the kingdom through the Techo International Airport in southern Kandal province, the news release said, adding that the group would face legal action in South Korea.
"They were deported to their birth country after the authorities found that they were involved in online fraud," the news release said.
It was not the first time the Southeast Asian country sent South Korean nationals back to their home country, the news release said, adding that in the recent past, the kingdom also deported 180 South Korean nationals.
Cambodia has launched an unprecedented nationwide crackdown on cyber scam networks, aiming at maintaining and protecting security, public order, and social safety.
According to Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams, the kingdom had arrested a total of 3,455 online scam suspects in 20 nationalities in nearly four months. ■
South Korean online scam suspects are escorted onto a plane at the Techo International Airport in Kandal province, Cambodia on Oct. 18, 2025. Cambodia deported 64 South Korean online scam suspects, including five women, to their birth country on Friday night, said a news release from Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday. (Agence Kampuchea Presse/Handout via Xinhua)
South Korean online scam suspects are escorted onto a plane at the Techo International Airport in Kandal province, Cambodia on Oct. 18, 2025. Cambodia deported 64 South Korean online scam suspects, including five women, to their birth country on Friday night, said a news release from Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday. (Agence Kampuchea Presse/Handout via Xinhua)