National Police Spokesperson Denies a Korean TV’s Fabricated Report

The spokesperson of the General Commissariat of National Police has categorically denied a fabricated report broadcasted by a Korean TV station alleging that a Korean citizen was victim of confinement for illegal work and kidnapping in Cambodia.

In his statement released on Oct. 24, the spokesperson said that immediate investigations conducted after the broadcast showed that on Aug. 5, 2024, a Korean woman claimed via a hotline that she could not contact her husband who was working at the iCon Building in Phnom Penh’s Khan Sen Sok.

Competent forces then went to the reported location and found that there was neither kidnapping nor illegal confinement, said the source, pointing out that they found and handed over the Korean man to the General Department of Immigration for further questioning. After questioning, the Korean man claimed that he had been neither kidnapped nor illegally confined.

On Aug. 8, 2024, the spokesperson added, the Korean man was repatriated to his home country.

‘In this regard, the sp
okesperson of the General Commissariat of National Police stressed that the news broadcast by that Korean TV is not true at all, and the General Commissariat of National Police would like to categorically reject [this report] and call on the Korean TV station to revise the broadcast,’ the statement concluded.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse