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Threats force anti-trafficking NGO director out of Cambodia

Jacob Sims spoke out about kingdom's booming slave-based scam industry

Even on weekends, the lights burn all night in Poipet, a casino hub in Cambodia facing Thailand's Aranyaprathet. Sophisticated scamming and online gambling operations run 24-7.

PHNOM PENH -- The director of a major anti-human trafficking campaign group in Cambodia has been prevented from returning to the country by his organization after he publicly spoke out against the kingdom's booming online fraud industry based on slave labour.

The U.S.-based International Justice Mission directed its then-country director Jacob Sims not to return to the South-East Asian nation since last July because of "credible warnings about various potential threats," the non-governmental organization told Nikkei Asia.

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