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Dark rooms, no meals and daily beatings with baseball bats. This was the ordeal faced by thousands of Indian victims of a jobs fraud in Cambodia. Over 360 Indian nationals have been rescued or repatriated after an intervention by the Indian embassy. The Police Commissioner Of Vishakapatnam A Ravi Shankar details the specifics of the Chinese-run operation in an exclusive chat with Parikshit Luthra. On Friday, 24 May, 27 youths trafficked to Cambodia from Visakhapatnam and its vicinity returned home. Out of the 58 rescued, 27 were from Andhra Pradesh. Promised jobs, they were sold to Chinese operators in Cambodia, subjected to torture, and forced into cybercrimes and Ponzi schemes. According to Visakhapatnam Joint Commissioner of Police Fakkeerappa Kaginelli, nearly 5,000 Indians were trafficked to Cambodia from across the country through various agents. On 18 May, Vizag police arrested Chukka Rajesh, S Kondala Rao and M Jnaneshwar Rao on human trafficking charges for luring youth from India with data entry jobs in Singapore but actually trafficking them to Cambodia to carry out cybercrimes. The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday, 26 May, appealed to youth seeking employment abroad, particularly in South East Asian countries, to thoroughly verify the antecedents of recruitment agents and companies before applying for a job. The advisory was issued in the wake of rescue of 83 Tamil youths from Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, where they were taken on tourist visas under the pretext of providing jobs in the IT sector and later were forced to engage in ‘illegal online activities.’ Citing reports of Indian nationals being lured by unregistered agents with high paying jobs in Laos, the Non-Resident Tamil’s Welfare department in an official release on Sunday said the candidates were taken illegally across the border into Laos from Thailand and were held captive to work under ‘harsh and restrictive conditions.’ #jobscam #aboardjob #combodiajobscam #combodia #indian #jobfraud #fraud #cnbctv18digital #cnbctv18 🔴CNBC TV18 LIVE TV: SUBSCRIBE to our Channel: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👑 Check Out Top CNBC TV18 Playlist Videos: 🔹Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 🔹CNBC TV18 Digital Podcast: 🔹Sounding Board: 🔹International Videos: 🔹CNBC TV18 Market Cafe: 🔹CNBC TV18 Digital: 🔹CNBC TV18 Weekend Special: 🔹CNBC TV18 Next-Gen: 🔹Overdrive Show: 🔹Young Turks: 🔹Starup Streets: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can also connect with CNBC-TV18 News Online Catch the latest news: Follow CNBC-TV18 round the clock: Stay updated with all the market action in real time: You can also stay updated with all the latest news on-the-go with CNBC-TV18 Minis: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Instagram: Catch us on: Linkedin: n18oc_business About CNBC-TV18: India's leading business news channel, CNBC-TV18 offers the most comprehensive coverage of businesses, the economy and the financial markets. Catch all your favourite shows, exclusive videos, big-ticket interviews and more here.
