00:00The Thai military said on Monday it had recovered a trove of evidence of transnational fraud
00:07from a Cambodian scam compound seized during clashes last year between the two countries
00:13along their disputed border. Briefing reporters and foreign delegates in Surin province,
00:19senior Thai military officials said the Osmak complex had housed thousands of people,
00:24many of them victims of human trafficking, who were forced to scam strangers or face
00:29punishment.
00:59Soldiers later led reporters through one of several buildings in the complex
01:16that were bombed and seized by the Thai military late last year. The six-story building was littered
01:22with documents, including lengthy lists of what appeared to be potential targets and
01:26their contact details, as well as scripts used for scam operations. Osmak has previously
01:32been named as a base for scam operations, including by the United States, which cited trafficking
01:38and forced criminality.
01:39The evidence is going to be probably going to be law enforcement because for the military,
01:45we don't know anything. But what we're going to do with this, we wait for GBC and JBC meetings.
01:54That has gone back to that kind of meeting.
01:58Cambodia's Interior Ministry spokesperson, Touch Sokak, said Thailand had used alleged scam centres
02:04as a pretext for military strikes. Thailand and Cambodia ended weeks of intense border clashes
02:09with a ceasefire in late December, following fighting in which Thai forces struck several
02:14casino complexes it said were scam compounds used to store weapons and launch attacks.
02:21Authorities said parts of Southeast Asia, particularly border areas linking Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia,
02:27have become major hubs for online fraud, generating billions of dollars annually.
02:32At the Osmak complex, the Thai military said it seized 871 SIM cards, dozens of smartphones
02:38and counterfeit police insignia and uniforms.
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