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in so is it possible for trump to actually obliterate the economy counting the cost on al-jazeera. from. a chinese casino empire to rival macau and las vegas has shot up on the coast of cambodia. in just a few years sihanoukville has been transformed from a sleepy tourist town into a heaving metropolis. the money is flooding in but so too are notorious chinese cartels with allegations of abduction torture and even murder it seems these gangs will stop at nothing in their quest to get rich quick if the money is not and i think people. don't want to see that happening here

. one of one east investigates the growing criminal underbelly of cambodia's casino boom. here on the tarmac at cambodia is known penn international airport the authorities have their hands full but. they're deporting 150 chinese citizens. the detainees of prodded and probed like cattle before being bungled a full 2 specially chartered planes. but it's chinese police not count bodi who are handling this deportation we surprised when chinese police came in to take home those people accused of being involved in criminal activities so it's a secret says our city chinese businessman one she long markets real estate in the

southern coastal city of siena thrill he says the arrests are part of a targeted crackdown on illegal chinese gambling rackets. sync up and was singing the song if and that's the whole reason to say to me that they had to. create a positive face fog that. this is out here. named after cambodia's last king sihanouk will was once acquired seaside town. today it's undergoing a dramatic transformation. for the past 3 years chinese investment has poured in. and the focus of all this construction. casinos. are betting way we always on the.

last they were just so far from the yet powerful that. seeing their bodies. pauses that's. more than a 100 casinos are planned with most of them already operating. and they range from shady bank street parlors to multi-million dollar be a moth's appealing to wealthy high rollers. but beyond the traditional casino operations there's a lucrative new game driving this boom and the players are far away and online. it's a huge business legal to operate here in cambodia but like all forms of gambling is outlawed in mainland china is it possible for someone in china to play those sir not only is it possible they are the target and johnny ferrari knows this business

well the canadian gaming consultant introduced online gaming technology to several casinos here he says many sites actively recruit gamblers who place their bets from china in direct contravention of chinese law so this is illegal it's illegal every single bet being made is illegal but you see when i say a legal i don't mean that anyone is getting scammed in terms of the players. players are happy they're getting a fair product it's illegal because this is banned by the powers that be and it's all loopholes it's all loopholes. and it's not just banned in china gambling is illegal for cambodian citizens to the entire industry that sprouted here is intended for foreign consumption only. it's frankly rare for a casino in sin to open its doors to the foreign media especially given all the

recent negative headlines coming out of the city but this casino operator has decided to allow its in and it wants to promote the very sort of gambling that's actually under the microscope right now. w.n. casino rows of smiling young creepy deal out caught up to card cameras capturing each hand and live streaming to gamblers around the world who play sports from the comfort of their own homes. casino operators in cambodia say the gambling industry is creating thousands of jobs in the poverty stricken nation. but not all these jobs are above board in another casino we find evidence of under-age workers and the exploitation. group. is preparing for her next 12 hour shift she works from 8 pm to 8 am 6 nights a week. she tells us she started working at the casino

a year ago when she was just 15. all she had to do to get the job was presented doc to a birth certificate that said she was 18. when not using her real name to protect her identity. have a good. hand. softly now supports a family earning more than $400.00 a month nearly double the average salary. but that. she says she was shocked the 1st time a chinese proposition to. come up come let

alone. a law i thought it obscene. and she says she's a. under-age casino workers. don't want to. talk. but how do you know for sure there. are. some of them will. be honest most of us don't know what you feel when you say benefit. maggie ino a british aid worker has run a child protection ngo in sihanoukville for nearly 2 decades she says it's common

for casinos to recruit under-age workers. her staff has seen 18 girls one just 13 years old drop out of school to work in casinos since april last year in order to get this salary of 3 or $400.00 a month so young people are being exposed to so much danger it's really bad for young development to be dropping out of school and the chances of say. they're exposed to so many dangerous. drugs they're seeing money at them and they start to think that that is a normal situation which it isn't. a good safe environment for young people to be working in. given sihanouk bills polluted traffic local streets it's not a great environment took to drive or even. the growing chinese population is a double edged sword he's making around $300.00 a month now much more than he did before. the soaring price of property means he

can no longer afford to rent a room. don't. buy your. little bit. of blue. he says he worries that the character of the city is changing too fast. chinese will outnumber cambodia. more than 90 percent of businesses here chinese are. right. at home but most of my life to pay for the family and the family. home in them you maggie you know is not happy either she worries about the growing number of families being pushed out of their homes by skyrocketing right. i mean if

you say this house the house is south of here to 2 different families living here. further along the beach we meet one of those families a combo d. and mother with learning difficulties and her young son. life was a struggle before but it's much worse now. if you like. the. situation is really desperate i mean you can't really be more vulnerable families right now if they live in that you know there's no doctor that the reason that she did that is because when trying is the best pain in the rents increased by a 1000 homes that. were on the beach with the sea on one side and a vast chinese construction site on the other. this 4 kilometer stretch of sand

used to draw backpackers from around the world. today it's a rubbish dump i think right now and most cambodians feel this is going to take over from friday if they feel like strangers in their own city. but when maggie sees catastrophe these investors see. they've just arrived in see them through. many of them traveling outside of china for the 1st time really hoping to find opportunities here. in the apartment. just enough for me to see. this reconnaissance trip is providing a 1st time glimpse will's broken infrastructure. junk says it reminds him of what china was once like before it became the world's 2nd largest economy. it's all ok and. 1 pm after maybe 10 years of each other. china

are going in so many different ways if the structures certain ways. and i think ammonia depend on sign a lot of. what we don't see this is the problem with the. to the south korean traders. growing tired of a potential for. these investors are tired is one built one road chinese president xi jinping has grand vision to project power and influence by creating new trading routes between asia europe and the middle east. it is a vision that attracted chinese businessmen one she'd come to see you know. well

having dinner at a busy seafood restaurant packed with chinese customers is a mean trick. that you don't just sit on. the way. out it just roll. off and i get to treat. the whole. time the good sense of. the phrase i think it. is concerned about seeing the bills increasingly violent reputation. and. good i want to see that the water that you could. not pass to go says you're not possible. since i did say that. to go ahead i just said. fox in the sights of the 2 is our. money and you come out. and this is happening in

broad daylight here you see the body actually being thrown into the street. choice enzyte so it's a bit of. distance and but. no i think boys here. for me and i shall see when i. see the notes and. he can do it by being he believes that eventually it will be more like heaven that's because cambodian prime minister who did send announced a dramatic measure in august to phase out online gambling. legal we saw your. empty chair and mitt. they want. you to go for you so that's it that's and for.

don't find your friends are so into. johnny ferrari is skeptical he says there's no real political will to clean up see them through what about the law governing casinos in cambodia. a lot. this is the wild west my friend there are some regulations but they're not being enforced monies thoughts. that's all it is. and he says crime in the city extends far beyond just online gaming. these casinos are just spots for money laundering what evidence do you have to because i've seen it but if you say have you seen the film casino the martin scorsese is or i have witnessed a man. walk into the cash room. put cash into the bag and walk out. inside. several times in the last year

cambodian airport police have busted chinese citizens bringing in suitcases stuffed with vast sums of money what does it say what does it tell you that some visitors coming into cambodia have been arriving here with suitcases full of millions of dollars in cash how is that possible well. we live in the kingdom of wonder and there are many things to be wonder about. co-heads the cambodian office of transparency international a non-governmental organization that combats bribery and fraud he's concerned the recent arrests are just the tip of the iceberg. one can put this into perspective if such amount of money can be transported through the airport how much more money can be transported by land or by ship through the ports

and with corruption together with loopholes in the law enforcement mechanism it is very convenient for money launderers to look at cambodia as a destination that would be attractive to them. and obviously we have a chinese investors being the number one investor in the country and chinese investor is known to be also exporting corruption and money laundering to the world not just in cambodia. cole is not the only one concerned the united nations and the international monetary fund have called on the government to act up to cambodia was placed on a global money laundering watch list. but in this rapidly transforming city

danger doesn't only come from hardened criminals. with construction taking place at breakneck speed the pressure to build so quickly has proved fatal. last june 28 cambodian workers died when the 7 story building they were working on collapsed authorities had twice ordered the chinese contractor to stop work at the site because of safety concerns since then 40 more buildings have been condemned another 70 await inspection. by one high loan is a chinese tycoon with began bishop. so this is the casino floor you know you know i'm told. he's building this $150000000.00 can see you know and hotel complex which he insists meets all safety standards 30 we're going

to lead the new one for our. but. i'm though. there was. a holiday on the seas the maybe they can fly. over here i'm here and he's a man in a hurry. he wants to open the doors within 8 months. or. so each and cause that low. so you think in. the on the we got sort of the 4 way stop on the country. creates is the. pin was in. when we ask about the high crime rate here he says every city has its good and bad people and that many chinese are simply aren't familiar with cambodia's laurel's stuff. like how much money you can bring into the country

was a spoiler partly. on. who are. you what are you of are. in which other union or might you what would. be a part you can copy about liz's says. mr wong is partnering with one of my cows biggest casino operators sun city which is code developing a sprawling casino complex on the outskirts of town but sun city's boss alvin chow is in serious trouble he's reportedly been banned from entering australia as investigators probe his alleged links to organized crime. he was forced to make a public apology after chinese state media accuse sun city of allegedly running illegal online gaming operations but chinese gamble is in cambodia and the

philippine. child to 9 is any wrongdoing the boss of son says he has been denied banned entry into australia because he's been accused of money laundering what do you think about those accusations who were the words here in the. could. cause. the. to do cope with. the. war the. war was. notorious macau underworld figure one point is also setting up in cambodia. better known as broken tooth he served 14 years in prison for a string of crimes including illegal gambling loan sharking and leading the 14 k.

try again. when he launched a new gaming cryptocurrency last year in nonpaying one high long was there in support. broken tooth has also reportedly offered to provide protection for chinese businesses in the war my. good. luck on that paulson and. one guy who you know has said he can provide that sort of security is he the solution. to when she. or.

despite broken tooth criminal past top military officials and senior cambodian leaders including this deputy prime minister have lined up to welcome a. company spokesman. says the government has formed a committee to prevent officials interacting with such figures we are afraid of. we afraid of being between. the government. or do you think it's appropriate that senior government figures should pose with such figures. is up proper. so that was a mistake that a mistake. that they are what the north of the land of the. activist when x.

made a career of exposing government mistakes and. an outspoken critic when act was thrown in jail for 5 months after investigating powerful government figures. today he's taking us into the country's 1st marine national park. to see a casino project he finds particularly scandalous. on a day like this the island of cole wrong son loam is picture perfect. is a forest but what the chinese do right now is they did try to change. their natural place. perched just meters from the shoreline is what used to be a busy chinese casino operators were ordered to close it in march after the naacp and his group. expose them pumping rule sewage into these protected waters new used

to have their lies and. their lies and. it's. said to be clear this because see no was an authorized its license that expired and it was pumping sewage into these waters yeah and they merely. but rather than face prosecution the owners have instead been granted a license to build another casino just behind the existing one. worries they'll soon be back in business in cambodia everything is possible. crime corruption and construction this is the new c n n. and it begs the question who's really winning cambodia's great

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