This is another new dimension in the human trafficking scam where Telugu youth are sent to Cambodia and forced to work with cyber-crime gangs in the name of data entry jobs. The plight of a Telangana youth who has been stuck in the hands of a Chinese fake job racket and has been languishing in Cambodia for six months has come to light.
A young man from Mahabubabad district in Telangana has sent a distress message to his family asking them to rescue him from Cambodia. This comes just a fortnight after the Visakhapatnam police uncovered a human trafficking racket operating from Cambodia and rescued 27 youth from Andhra Pradesh.
Prakash - Victim of Australia Job Consultancy:
Prakash, a resident of Kothapet village of Bayyaram mandal in Mahabubabad district, alleged that he was approached by a job consultancy in Hyderabad to go to Australia for work. Instead, he was trafficked to Cambodia and forced to reportedly work for cyber-crime syndicates. He said that is being tortured brutally.
Prakash took a selfie video and sent it through Whatsapp to his parents back in Mahabubabad. He also said that his employers were denying him food and torturing him by administering electric shocks. The family members from Telangana informed the local police about it and sought help to bring back Prakash.
27 Trafficked Youth Rescued by the Vizag Police:
In the last week, Vizag police commissioner Ravi Shankar Ayyanar with help of Indian Embassy officials rescued around 27 youth belonging to Vizag and other surroundings from Cambodia. Around 115 individuals from Andhra Pradesh fell into the clutches of traffickers from Cambodia. The handlers subjected the Indian youth to torture, including confinement in a dark room and occasional beatings with a baseball bat due to their poor performance.
The handlers in Cambodia had served only one meal a day to the Indian youth who were trafficked, and sometimes they went empty- stomach for days for ‘under performance’ in cyber fraud, said Ravi Shankar.
