SINGAPORE — The police are monitoring potential human trafficking of scam victims who are lured by scam syndicates to 'work' in other countries, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on Monday (Oct 3).
SINGAPORE — The police are monitoring potential human trafficking of scam victims who are lured by scam syndicates to"work" in other countries, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on Monday .
In a written response, Mr Shanmugam referred Mr Saktiandi to a reply last month when he told Parliament that there has been one police report since 2021 involving potential Singaporean victims. “The complainant stated that he had not personally spoken to the said Singaporeans, and did not have any other information or details regarding the identity of the Singaporeans,” Mr Shanmugam said.Last month, the Global Anti-Scam Organisation, a group fighting human trafficking and cybercrime in Southeast Asia, claimed that there were “more than a hundred” Singaporeans held captive in a Cambodian scam syndicate base, 8World News reported.
The ministry said it had received 301 reports of people trapped by the job scam networks in Cambodia, as well as in Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
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