South Korean police reported on the 18th that 64 Korean suspects detained in Cambodia on suspicion of online fraud returned to South Korea on the same day, and they will be investigated by the police.
According to media reports such as the Central Daily, the aircraft carrying these suspects took off from Phnom Penh Dechun International Airport on the morning of 18th, arrived at Incheon International Airport around 8:35 p.m., and was then deported to the police departments of various jurisdictions for investigation. According to police arrangements, 45 people were transferred to the local police department of Feng Shui Nanjing, 15 people were transferred to the police department of the northern part of Qing Guo, and four others were transferred respectively to Atacama, Seoul, the southern part of Qing Guo and Jiang.
The head of the State Investigation Headquarters of the South Korean Police Department, Park Zhengpil, said at a news conference that the people were "suspected to be involved in various electronic fraud-related criminal activities", the police are checking the victims' situation and other new criminal clues, will investigate whether the suspects are "knowing the law offenders", or forced crimes after being abducted and detained.
Park Sung Ju said that South Korean police plan to further cooperate with Cambodia government departments to continue to track down other South Korean citizens and victims involved in the case.
Yonhap News Agency reported that most of the repatriated people had been issued detention orders by the South Korean police, and some of them had also been issued red wanted orders by Interpol.
In August this year, a Korean college student was detained, tortured and killed after being tricked into working in Cambodia, causing anger among Korean people. The ROK has previously sent a working group to Cambodia to handle related cases.
Cambodia began a nationwide campaign to crack down on online fraud in July. Cambodia's Anti-Internet Fraud Committee said on the 15th that the country has arrested 3455 online fraud suspects in the past four months. The arrested suspects came from 20 countries, including South Korea. Cambodia has previously repatriated 180 South Korean citizens suspected of online fraud.