This combination of satellite images shows KK Park on the Myanmar-Thailand border on September 11, 2025, and November 14, 2025.
Recently, the Takeo Province government of Cambodia issued an official notice announcing that a large-scale park in Bati district suspected of engaging in telecommunications network fraud (telecom fraud) had been seized and completely closed by the Provincial Government's Joint Committee to Combat Telecommunications Network Fraud on July 22, 2025.
The notice disclosed that the park covers an area of about 5 hectares (equivalent to 7.5 standard football fields) and has huge internal facilities, including 1 warehouse and 13 buildings with a total of 348 rooms. It can be called one of the largest electronic fraud strongholds seized in Cambodia in recent years. The park is suspected of being used to organize cross-border telecommunications fraud, human trafficking and forced labor. Most of the victims are citizens from China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia and other countries who were deceived into Cambodia.
The Takeo Provincial Government stated that in order to facilitate subsequent case management and victim processing, it has decided to transfer the entire park building to the Cambodian Ministry of Interior to be used as a temporary detention center for foreigners, mainly for centralized management before repatriation. Relevant specific operations will be handled by the General Department of Immigration of Cambodia to ensure compliance with international human rights standards and repatriation procedures.
This move is the latest action taken by the Cambodian government to crack down on “scam compounds” since 2025. Since July 2025, Cambodia has launched a large-scale raid in many provinces across the country, arresting thousands of people and closing nearly 200 fraud strongholds (including Sihanoukville, Phnom Penh and border areas). Prime Minister Hun Manet has repeatedly ordered the "complete dismantling of all fraud networks" and strengthened cooperation with Thailand, China, South Korea and other countries to repatriate victims.
However, Cambodia’s electronic fraud industry is deeply rooted, and many parks are controlled by Chinese-backed criminal groups and are involved in serious crimes such as human trafficking, torture, and organ trafficking. A 2023 report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights estimated that approximately 100,000 people in Cambodia were forced to engage in fraud. Although progress has been made in the recent seizure operations, experts point out that some of the parks have been moved to the border with Myanmar or Laos, making it still difficult to crack down.
(Comprehensive report from the official announcement of the Takeo Provincial Government of Cambodia)
