Wednesday, May 20, 2009

South Korean man charged over Cambodian marriage fraud

May 20, 2009
DPA


Phnom Penh - A Cambodian court on Tuesday charged a South Korean man with falsifying official documents as part of an alleged scheme to broker marriages between Cambodian women and South Korean men, national media reported Wednesday.

Police arrested Lee Kyung Jun, 40, Monday in Phnom Penh after another South Korean man accused him of supplying false marriage certificates, the Cambodian Daily reported.

An Interior Ministry official said Lee was accused of supplying at least 14 false marriage certificates to the man, who owns a marriage agency, at a cost of 500 dollars per person.

The official said the certificates carried the signature of a provincial administrator but were proven to be falsified after the recipient checked their authenticity with the administrator.

The ministry did not say whether the complainant's marriage service was a legal business.

Lee was detained by the Interior Ministry while officials decided whether to release him on bail.

The government in November enforced a temporary ban on marriages between Cambodians and foreigners after an International Organization for Migration report claimed a high number of local women were being married to South Korean men through illegal agencies.

The ban was lifted in January.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why those fucken stupid khmer girls wants to marriage these korean anyway? as they already knew that these people abuse and use them as sex slave to other girls in the past...? the supid and stubborn khmer girls!!

Anonymous said...

Those Korean and Taiwanese people had used khmer girls as a slave in their country, they force them to work for their wife and treated khmer girls like slave/sex slave!

Anonymous said...

Because khmer girls are up for sale with a price less than a German shepherd costs.