M'sia man who escaped Cambodia scam compound says he was forced to eat pork, saw women beaten with a belt

A Malaysian man recounted his horrifying ordeal at a Cambodian scam compound.

The man was luckily freed from his captivity after his wife lodged a police report, and paid RM6,000 (S$1,889) in ransom.

Muhammad Syafiq Pubalan Abdullah, 40, shared his tale in a press conference organised by Malaysian Muslim Consumers Association.

According to The Star, Syafiq recalled how women were beaten with a belt at the scam site.

He even said he had heard how one woman was raped by 11 people after her mum filed a police report.

He was also forced to eat pork, and was beaten up if he didn't. Even when he was given a phone to call his wife, the call would be monitored.

The businessman had initially gone to Cambodia to open a Malaysian restaurant at his friend's urging. He was instead driven to the scam compound.

There were guards outside his workplace, and he saw a casino near there.

There, he was forced to scam people through phone calls, pretending to be officers from a cyber security agency from Singapore offering a fake job.

He said that during his time there, one Singaporean was scammed out of S$67,000.

Despite his tribulations, he's one of the lucky ones.

He said about 700 people are still trapped in the compound.

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