"‘Freeze human traffickers’ assets’", 15 August 2019

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng ordered relevant authorities to freeze the assets of those found to be involved in human trafficking and illegal logging.

Sar Kheng was speaking at the annual Interfaith Forum on Combating Human Trafficking in the capital ...

He said human traffickers were generally greedy and enriched themselves by deceiving their poor, illiterate and innocent victims with promises of a better life.

“Be it drugs, human trafficking or illegal timber dealing, it is not enough to just arrest and bring them to justice. That would be useless, so we also have to stop their dirty money circulating. We need to freeze their assets,” he said.

A report issued by the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) said police tackled 78 cases of human trafficking and saved 263 victims in the first six months of this year. That represented an increase of 25 and 148 per cent respectively, compared to the same period last year…

Sar Kheng also urged the relevant authorities to step up their efforts in combating human trafficking. The appeal came after the US Department of Defence downgraded Cambodia’s ranking in its human trafficking report, placing the Kingdom in its Tier2 Watch list…