"‘They Beat Me in the Dark’: Survivor Details Abuse In Cambodia’s Emerging Scam Hub", 8 April 2025

… Bun Sreytouch, a Chinese-Khmer translator, recounted her harrowing experience in an 18-minute interview with local outlet ... Visibly shaken, she described being tortured, beaten, and extorted by a group of seven Chinese nationals inside the Prince 4 building in Chrey Thom, Sampov Poun city, .... She said her driver and sister also faced violence inside the compound.

“I knew what I was going to face, they took me to be beaten. When I got to the room, there was a pipe and it was dark. I saw it and I was scared. I thought I was going to die,” she said …

In her interview, Sreytouch said she had arranged a meeting on January 26 with a Malaysian-Chinese man known as Xiao-G, a translator that she said worked for the Prince Group, to talk about some work. On the date of the would-be interview, she went to the Prince 4 building accompanied by her sister and a driver. But upon entering the premises, her sister was verbally threatened, prompting Sreytouch to begin recording. That act triggered a violent reaction from the group, who allegedly used batons and handcuffs to detain her…

“When they caught me, they handcuffed me and used a baton to shock me until I hit my head on the ground,” she said …, adding that the group deleted photos from her phone but continued to assault her.

She was dragged into a dark room, where the abuse escalated. After pleading for her release, she was forced to transfer $2,400 in exchange for her freedom…