All casinos have a full proof security for their customers as well as employees however at times incidents do happen which actually bring many loopholes to notice. Similarly, all casinos have a built in house edge but in Cambodia, this edge can actually draw blood. In a recent incident, the police in the Cambodian city of Sihanoukville arrested two Chinese employees of the Leu Phnom Casino for stabbing and robbing two other Chinese nationals. As per the report published in Khmer Times and quoted the local police chief saying that four men were not known to each other prior to this attack. According to the details share the two 22-year-old staffers reportedly tied their hands on the other side of the gambling table only to go broke in the process. Short of cash then they decided to rob their countrymen who were then sleeping in the casino’s staff quarters at that time.
When these victims got awakened at the knife point they resisted and were stabbed in the arm and back when they were not parting with their money fast enough. The staff/thieves stole from their friends/victims around $3k in cash as well as a laptop. However, the police have recovered $1100 of the stolen cash and the laptop after the arrest of these perpetrators.
Meanwhile, police in Svan Rieng province have arrested a casino employee in Bavet for kidnapping a gambler and extorting money from the man’s family. The victim, who is a Vietnamese national, borrowed VND 100m (US $4,400) from the casino’s in-house lender, who was also Vietnamese when he lost all his money in gambling at an unidentified casino. But the victim did not stop playing and even lose all the money he had borrowed from this lender and had no way to repay the loan. The lender along with two other individuals detained the gambler at a guesthouse in Bavet and then contacted the gambler’s family in Vietnam demanding they replay for their relative’s debt. In return the gambler’s family then contacted Cambodian police who were able to track down the place where the gambler was held. Then the lender was arrested but his two accomplices fled. As per law, the lender has been charged with unlawful confinement and extortion which can land him up to five-year prison sentence. Gambling in local domestic casinos is not allowed in Vietnam as per the law and thus a lot of citizens visit numerous small casinos that lie just over the border in Cambodia.
