ASEANEWS HEADLINE-CRIME | PHONM PENH: Police refute allegations of illegal detention, kidnapping of a Korean man

A spokesman for the National Police General Commission refuted allegations that Korean citizens in Cambodia were victims of illegal detention, forced labour, and kidnapping, as broadcast by a Korean television station on Thursday.

Following the orders of Prime Minister Hun Manet, after seeing the Korean media broadcast, Neth Savoeun, Chairman of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, Sar Sokha, Minister of Interior, and General Sar Thet, the General Commissioner of the National Police, immediately deployed a specialised search force to investigate the claim.

As a result of the investigation, it was revealed that on August 5, a Korean woman contacted the hotline and claimed that her husband was working at the Icon Building in Sen Sok district but could not contact him.

The specialist investigative team went to the building and found no kidnapping or illegal detention taking place.

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However, the team found and handed over the Korean national to the Department of Immigration for further questioning. After questioning, the Korean man claimed that he had not been kidnapped or detained for illegal work, and on August 8 the Department of Immigration sent him back to Korea.

A spokesman for the National Police General Commission stressed that the allegations in the Korean TV broadcast were false, and the Police refuted the allegation and asked the TV station to remove the misleading broadcast.

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