Seoul sends team to Cambodia over scam centre kidnappings ...Middle East

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The team, headed by the vice foreign minister, will depart Wednesday evening, according to a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Between January and August this year, 330 South Koreans were reported missing or detained against their will while in Cambodia, according to Seoul’s foreign ministry, with the safety of about 80 yet to be verified.

The response team includes officials from the police and South Korea’s spy agency, according to the presidential office.

The recent death of a Korean college student in Cambodia -- reportedly kidnapped and tortured by a local crime ring -- has shocked South Korea.

Three Chinese nationals were charged with murder and online fraud on August 11 and remain in pre-trial detention, the court said.

According to Amnesty International, abuses in Cambodia’s scam centres are happening on a “mass scale”.

There are at least 53 scam compounds in the country where organised criminal groups carry out human trafficking, forced labour, torture, deprivation of liberty and slavery, according to the organisation. - AFP

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