A Nigerian man and his Cambodian girlfriend were arrested on Thursday,
September 8th and charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court last
Saturday, with extorting $300 from a Cambodian woman.
According to Keo Sitha, a police officer in the technology crimes
department in the Interior Ministry, 37-year-old Uchechukwu Vincent and
27-year-old Sarim Kunthea demanded payment from woman in return for not
revealing alleged sexual relationship with a another Nigerian man to
the woman’s husband.
The pair lived in a house in Sansom Kosal 5 village,
Boeung Tumpon commune, in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district. Mr. Sitha
added that they had been charged with “threat accompanied by extortion”
under article 232 of the Criminal Code.
"They were arrested by our police while they came to get the $300 at a Wing transfer shop in Chom Chao commune,” he said.
According to the 28-year-old woman’s complaint, she dated a Nigerian man
in 2014, but the two later separated, and in 2015, she married a
Cambodian man. But earlier this month, Mr. Vincent and Ms. Kunthea –
friends of the woman’s Nigerian ex-boyfriend – threatened to tell her
current husband about the affair, assuming it would somehow offend the
woman’s current husband.
In a series of phone calls, they demanded $300 in exchange for hiding
the information. The woman called the police and prepared the money
transfer to apprehend the pair.
Source: KHMER
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