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At the start of the year, Cambodia announced it closed down more than 200 illegal gambling businesses.
Recently, country officials have been urged to hunt down “key figures” who are protecting the industry dominated by Chinese scam gangs plaguing the coastal city of Sihanoukville, also referred to as “sin city.”
The country’s ongoing crackdowns in “sin city” have proven that they are still powered by the scam industry, according to observers.
This is despite the continuous efforts employed by the government to completely eradicate the Chinese crime gangs that have generated billions of dollars using cyber fraud.
At the start of March, officials made over 450 arrests regarding alleged illegal online gambling scams as well as “pig-butchering” scam businesses that were thriving behind the masks of legal casinos.
Similar operations have been observed in condominiums and commercial buildings turned into worker dormitories, offices, and different support sites that the criminal gangs used to run their cyber-fraud businesses.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes in Southeast Asia and the Pacific’s deputy representative, Benedikt Hofman, the high level of concern and efforts shown by local authorities did not suffice to eradicate the scam operations.
According to Cambodia-based Chinese reporter, Huang Yan, police raids normally target small and obscure scam operations.
Post-crackdown, city governor Kuoch Chamroeun made a Facebook appeal, asking for information that would help locate Zhong Huokun, a Chinese national who is suspected of owning one of the two raided locations on March 9-10.
According to the Chinese reporter, before the crackdown, “they always arrested the low-level staff members” while failing to catch general managers of the scam groups.
This is why the governor’s appeal is “very interesting” as it is a first.
According to Ros Phirun, secretary general of the Commercial Gambling Management Committee of Cambodia, the higher fees and revenue for gaining gambling permits did not trigger the expected results when it comes to controlling the sector.
In other words, as explained by a CyberScamMonitor representative, the extra attention given to their activities did not scare off scam businesses in the city.
On the contrary, it would appear that the industry is deeply embedded in the country, given the evidence showing how “powerful elite actors” are taking advantage of it and guaranteeing its survival.
To tackle the problem the right way, “a comprehensive and sustained crackdown is needed” together with the right type of legal action against the “key figures” running orange protecting the sector.
At the start of 2023, Cambodia announced it made 1,241 arrests in the first half of 2023 in illegal gambling cases.
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The winners of the $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot hit last October in California have come forward to claim the prize.
A Powerball ticket sold in Frazier Park, California, for the Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, drawing managed to match the five white numbers and the red Powerball. That allows them to claim the second-richest lottery prize in US history. The lucky play was purchased at the Midway Market in Kern County, a family-owned business for 30 years that was awarded a $1 million bonus commission for selling the winning ticket.
Frazier Park is a small mountain town about 50 miles north of Los Angeles.
California resident Theodorus Struyck, 65, came forward to collect the historic prize. California requires lottery winners to disclose their identity to secure public trust in the state-run operation. Forty-four states have a lottery, but only 11 allow winners to remain anonymous.
Struyck said he represented a group of winners who purchase Powerball tickets together, with an agreement to share in any winnings.
The California Lottery release did not specify how many others are involved in the group. It also did not disclose whether the group chose the one-time cash option of approximately $774.1 million or the full value of the annuity paid out over 30 years. Both amounts are before a federal tax rate of 37%. California doesn’t further tax lottery winnings.
Struyck and his cohorts won the Powerball jackpot after the interstate lottery game went 35 draws without a single ticket matching the six drawn numbers. The odds of doing so are one in 292.2 million.
California Lottery officials say the run generated almost $120 million in funding for public schools, which is where the state allocates its lottery revenue. The cashing in of the jackpot ticket, the lottery release added, provides “hope” for the millions of lottery players across the country that they could be next.
Announcing big wins like this gives all of our players the chance to hope and dream that they could be next,” said California Lottery Director Harjinder K. Shergill Chima. “But it also gives us an opportunity to shine the spotlight on our terrific mission, which is to generate additional, supplemental funding for public education in California.”
Chima said that while most Powerball players will never win the jackpot, California students win every day because of the lottery.
As for Struyck, his neighbors say the win “couldn’t have happened to a better guy.” Struyck has for years lived in a small home measuring less than 1,200 square feet.
“He’s a family man, loves to spend time with his grandkids,” neighbor Kevin Woten told the Daily Mail. “He’s a really kind person and always seems happy. I imagine he’s got a lot of ideas of what he wants to do with the money.”
Struyck is originally from Hawaii. Woten said he talked in length with Struyck after the devastating Maui wildfires but doesn’t remember Struyck saying he has family there.
The next major lottery winner in the US is imminent, as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots are growing to nearly unprecedented highs.
Monday night’s Powerball jackpot has an estimated value of $645 million, with the cash option at $307.3 million. Mega Millions has climbed to $875 million, with the cash at $413.5 million, for the game’s drawing on Tuesday night.
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