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that matter to. al-jazeera. with. 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 toll truck and even murder it seems these gangs will stop at nothing in their quest to get rich quick if the money. people. don't want to see that happening. one on 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. there deporting 150 chinese citizens. the detainees of prodded and probed like cattle before being bungled a full 2 specially chartered planes. but its 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 records. sync up and was singing the song if and that's the whole reason to say to me that there has to. create a positive faith father. 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. we are always on the. last and we just saw your power for that as. being.

something that's of. more than $100.00 casinos are planned with most of them already operating. and they range from shady backstreet parlors to multi-million dollar pier moths 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. 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 illegal 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 while the entire industry that sprouted here is intended for foreign consumption only. it's frankly rare for a casino in sin a guild 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 us 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 cart cameras capturing each hand and live streaming to gamblers around the world who place bets from the comfort of their own homes. casino operators in cambodia say the gambling industry is creating thousands of jobs in the public he stricken nation. but not all these jobs are above board. in another casino we find evidence of under-age workers and the exploitation. group be a song is preparing for her next 12 hour shift she works from 8 pm to 8 am 6 nights a week. she tells. 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

docked a birth certificate that said she was 18. not using her real name to protect her identity. from time again i. am. now supports a family earning more than $400.00 a month nearly double the average salary. that . she says she was shocked when the 1st time a chinese gambler propositioned her to. come up.

a law by god it was obscene. and she says she's met other under-age casino workers. but how do you know for sure there are under-age pair. of them will. be honest most of us don't know what these buildings they're going to be 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 safety in the future they're exposed to so many dangerous. drugs they're seeing money at them and they start to see 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 clog streets it's not a great environment took truck driver even. the growing chinese population is a double edged sword he's making around $300.00 a month 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 it was absolutely. 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 i don't. have the muscle in my life to pay for the damage in 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 see this house by house just south of here to 2 different families living here

. further along the beach we meet one of those families a cambodian 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 family is right now and they live in that you know there's no doctor that the reason that she did that is because when they try to use investments came 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 cebu through. many of them traveling outside of china for the 1st time really hoping to find opportunities here likely. in the apartment and different opportunities. this reconnaissance trip is providing a 1st time blimps. broken infrastructure. alan jones 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 or returner. china are how i'm going in so many different ways you're for structured construction

along the way. and i think i'm only on the panel and trying to a lot. the right way don't see this is the problem that we feel is appropriate for traders. growing tired of a potential for. these investors are fired 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 top of the

great you buy you. some grow that i don't know how to just talk about how that was you know how and i get to treat. me. as an answer the hope. and the good sense of. surprise i held on to get. good long is concerned about seeing the bills increasingly violent reputation. now i'm sent up comments on cundall gigo don't want to see that but we'll talk that . trauma is not possible because you're not pasta trades at all since i did say that. to get hold i just said. fox in the cited it was our. money and you talk about. and this is happening in broad daylight here you see the body actually being thrown into the street. choice since i watched it.

so this is what i say no i didn't voice here. 4 minutes i was here when i. see i'm going to need to be found. can he but. 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. shame it. seems that. they want. to go to that fund that's and for. the. fans or friends of. 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. are. this is the wild west my friend there are regulations but they're not being enforced money talks. 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 because i've seen it but if you say have you seen the film casino the martin scorsese theater i have witnessed a man. walk into the cash room. put cash into the bag and walk out. and sign it. several times. in the last year cambodian airport police have busted chinese citizens bringing in soup cases

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. 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 for all 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 transporting it 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 the 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 long is a chinese tycoon with began bishop. so this is the casino floor. you know. he's building this $150000000.00 casino and hotel complex which he insists meets all safety standards. we're going to imagine from now on the hydrogen allowed but. i'm though. there were tears of.

years of holiday on the 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 door within 8 months. or. so you can cause the. this is the. on the we've got sort of the other it's a 4 way stop on his own country. creates the. pinboard. 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 laurels of all of us like how much money you can bring into the country is crime was a soil are funny. well you are. you were are you of are. in which another you are

all my you all. watch you. copy about. this issue. mr wong is partnering with one of my cows biggest casino operators sun city which is code developing a sprawling casino complex at 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 philippines. 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. currie you should know to cause. the good to. know what. to do cope with. the. war the. war or the. notorious macao underworld figure one point koyo is also chatting 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 known penn one high long was there in support. broken tooth has also reportedly offered to provide protection for chinese businesses. the warm i. don't get. along with that paulson and you want. one guy who you know has said he can provide that sort of security is he the solution. there when she. or. despite broken to scrim and all 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. we afraid for between their. area 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 day hour to the north of the land. go back to his tone of an axe made a career of exposing government mistakes and. a whole. bargain in part 2 of. an outspoken critic of

an 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 co wrong son loam is picture perfect. is a forest. but what the chinese do right now days is they did try to change. the natural place. perched just meters from the shoreline is what used to be a busy chinese casino operators to close it in march after the naacp and his group expose them pumping role sewage into these protected waters new used to have their lies and. there. is. so to be clear

this because the no was an authorized its license that expired and it was pumping into these waters yeah. but rather than face prosecution the owners of instead being granted a license to build another casino just behind the existing one. 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 casino go.

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