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a chinese casino empire to rival macau and las vegas has shot up on the coast of cambodia. in just a few years seen oakville has been transformed from a sleepy tourist town into a heaving metropolis. money is flooding in but so too the notorious chinese can tell us with allegations of abduction toll chat and even murder it seems these gangs will stop at nothing in their quest to get rich quick if they. 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 penne international airport the authorities have their hands full. there deporting 150 chinese citizens. the detainees of prodded and probed like cattle before being bungled the pull to specially charted planes. but its chinese police not count podio who are handling this steeple taishan 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. and was singing the song your fondest hope. to me and has a. pretty. face father. 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 taught it. and the focus of all this construction. casinos. we.

lost and we're just so fast and yet powerful that that's. seen. as of. more than $100.00 casinos are planned with most of them already operating. and they range from shady banks street parlors to multi-million dollar beer 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. 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 the entire industry that sprouted here is intended for foreign consumption only. it's frankly rare for a casino in sin or guilt 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 come 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 the stricken nation. but not all these jobs are above board. in another casino we find evidence of under-age workers and exploitation. croupy 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 tab again. and. now supports a family earning more than $400.00 a month nearly double the average salary. that . she says she was shocked at the 1st time a chinese gambler propositioned her to. come up.

a law that is obscene. and she says she's met other under-age casino workers. close. by i don't want to. talk on the home. but how do you know for sure there are under-age pair. some 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 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 sihanoukville 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 much more than he did before. the soaring price of property means he can no

longer afford to rent a room. don't. get for your job or buy your. will but. there 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. at home but most of my life there 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 see 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 cambodian mother with learning difficulties and her young son. life was a struggle before but it's much worse now. if you like. your. 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 the door the reason that she did that is because when they try to use investments pay when the rents increased by a $1000.00 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 trying 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 a traveling outside of china for the 1st time really hoping to find opportunities here to live in the apartment and just enough for me to see. this reconnaissance trip is providing a 1st time for blimps will see no bills broken infrastructure. junk says it reminds him of what china was once like before it became the world's 2nd largest economy. it's no. longer an opportunity 10 years are you better. china

are how we're going in so many different ways you're for structured construction along the way. and i think ammonia prepare non-final a lot. the right way don't see this is the problem we feel is appropriate if it is . growing higher. potential for us. to do these investors are hired 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 down with a great guy you know what i. want to add on how to just talk about how i want you know how and i get to treat. me. as i dance the whole. time that the good sense of philosophers are counted. but long is concerned about seeing the bills increasingly violent reputation. problems and apartments on cundall jiggered i want to see that the woodstock that you could. not pass because you're not possibly trades at all since i did say that. to get hold i just said. fox in the sights of the 2 is 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 said no i didn't boys hear so good. for me and i shall see what i . see i'm going to need a defun. he can keep on 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 it. seems that. they want. you to go for you so that's it that's and for. the. tunes the fans are friends.

johnny ferrari is skeptical he says there's no real political will to clean up see to 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 what do you say have you seen the film casino the martin scorsese 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 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. 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 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. the 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 after 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

our own. but. and though. there was. a 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 miles. or. so each and cause the. this is the. on the we got sort of the other it's a 4 way stop and on comes your. queen says the. pin board. 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 unfamiliar with cambodia's laws of all of us like how much money you can bring into the country as crime was a spoiler. when

you are. you were. in which other union or you would. watch you. copy about listen says. mr wong is partnering with one of macau biggest casino operators sun city which is co developing a sprawling casino complex of 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 a chinese state media accuse sun city of allegedly running illegal online gaming operations for 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. yes you know to cause. the good. or bad to do coke with. the powder. or the. war or the. notorious macau underworld figure one point koyo 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 known penn one high long was there in support. broken tooth has also reportedly offered to provide protection for chinese businesses. the woman. who was. good. luck on that and then. 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. so that was a mistake that a mistake. that they are but here. is the last visit about 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. 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. it's. said to be clear this because see 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. will 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. this just make the heroes of europe asia africa the middle east. to a state which made such. a comment should still makes mistakes pete for the us because it's best to keep such short stay. on top. of this fee for the trouble. that's all you'll. really felt

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