PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia and South Korea said Thursday that a delegation of lawmakers from South Korea’s National Assembly visited a building in Cambodia allegedly used by an online scam operation involving dozens of South Koreans.

The South Koreans were detained by Cambodian police and repatriated earlier this month to South Korea, where authorities have accused them of involvement in fraud including romance scams and bogus investments, apparently targeting fellow South Koreans at home.

The members of the assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee inspected the site Wednesday on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, where dozens of South Koreans were detained during a crackdown on July 5.

Cambodia’s commission on online crime said that Cambodian poli

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