Interior Minister Sar Sokha said Cambodia had deported more than 15,000 foreigners involved in cybercrime during just over two years since the start of the National Assembly’s seventh mandate.
Speaking at the opening of a workshop on exchanging experience in combating technology-enabled scams and money laundering on the morning of 8 October 2025, he recalled that more than 21,000 foreigners linked to cybercrime had also been deported during the sixth government’s term.
He said: “During the sixth term, under former prime minister Hun Sen and former interior minister Sar Kheng, we deported approximately more than 21,000 foreigners involved in online crime in one term. In this seventh parliamentary mandate, in just over two years at the start of the term, we have already deported approximately more than 15,000.”
The minister said these deportations reflected the seventh government’s strong attention to cybercrime. Combating it was not Cambodia’s responsibility alone, he said, calling on other countries to build mutual understanding and work together against online crime.
Sar Sokha added that online scams were evolving rapidly and differed from those of five years earlier. The criminals’ market was not Cambodia alone but the world, requiring all relevant parties to help prevent the crime. He said: “Previously, they were concentrated, meaning many people at each location. But now they have divided into small groups.”
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Television. By: ង៉ែត ពិសាន្ត
