{"id":13607,"date":"2025-11-22T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:13:00","slug":"cambodian-scam-ring-wanted-singaporean-fled-to-wifes-house-in-thailand-arrested-there-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13607","title":{"rendered":"Cambodian scam ring: Wanted Singaporean fled to wife&#8217;s house in Thailand, arrested there, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Singaporean man who is suspected to be a member of a Cambodian scam syndicate escaped to Thailand and hid at his wife&#8217;s house in the northeastern Khon Kaen province, Thai police revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Sie Eng Fa, 32, whose wife is Thai, was arrested upon request by the Singapore police, said the Thai police&#8217;s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) in a Facebook post on Wednesday (Nov 19).<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at his wife&#8217;s house, which is in Si Chomphu district of Khon Kaen province, on charges of overstaying in Thailand, said the CIB.<\/p>\n<p>Sie and another alleged syndicate member, Singaporean Wayne Soh You Chen, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/2-singaporeans-scam-gang-Cambodia-arrested-charged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged at the State Courts on Nov 17<\/a> under the Organised Crime Act, having been deported to Singapore and arrested on arrival a day earlier. Soh was arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>Thai Police Lieutenant Colonel Narongrit Phumphuang told local media that Sie confessed to working as a &#8220;finance administrator&#8221; for the scam ring, earning about US$4,000 (S$5230) monthly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"780\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCIBTHAILAND%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02nRGdEm4429yFoUjPL7NYcsakBApY5d3z89RyFpJVj7VuDptjCSNjfBqipC81dHPAl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sie and Soh were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/27-singaporeans-among-34-people-wanted-suspected-links-cambodia-scam-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier identified by Singapore police<\/a> to be among 34 men who were wanted for their alleged involvement in Government official impersonation scams. Interpol Red Notices were issued against the men.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media reports, the two men were allegedly scam callers at a compound in Cambodia and are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/2-singaporeans-scam-gang-Cambodia-arrested-charged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused of furthering the illegal purpose<\/a> of a locally linked organised criminal group.<\/p>\n<p>Another wanted Malaysian man, Bernard Goh Yie Shen, 24, has also been deported and charged in Singapore for his alleged role in the scam ring.<\/p>\n<p>25 Singaporeans and six Malaysians in the scam ring remain at large.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"672\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fasiaonecom%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02Cm2gndmieNndwJCZQhqGPGNbMCiMCdt3HskxtBjVPsUbWVx3yP5XvNi3iWcdARPil&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[[nid:725469]]<\/p>\n<p>lim.kewei@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/cambodian-scam-ring-wanted-singaporean-brian-sie-fled-wife-house-thailand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Singaporean man who is suspected to be a member of a Cambodian scam syndicate escaped to Thailand and hid at his wife&#8217;s house in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}