A Chinese adult male who claimed he was trafficked to the Cambodian play hub Sihanoukville by a malefactor work party and kept as a “blood slave” made the whole thing up, according to Kampuchean authorities.

Last month, Li Yayuanlun, 31, said he had been kidnapped past the mob in June after traveling to China’s southwestern region of Guangxi to go for for a surety chore at a nightclub.

He was and then smuggled to Sihanoukville, where he was sold for US$18,500 to another gang. His unexampled captors forced him to do work for online play and teleselling dupery schemes targeting mainland China, according to Li’s story, which for the first time appeared inwards Cambodia’s Asian Pacific Times.

Eventually, when he refused to work, Li claimed the ring discovered he had a rarefied blood typewrite and began extracting his blood. This was sold online to private buyers, he said.

The work party drained 27 ounces from him every month for sextuplet months — a life-threatening amount that would experience earnestly wedged his health.

Widespread Shock inward China

Li claimed he managed to escape. He was genuinely admitted to hospital on February 12 with what was described in initial reports as multiple organ loser resulting from his ordeal. His stipulation was reported as stable.

The story made headlines around the world, non to the lowest degree inwards China, where it caused widespread shock, according to Chinese state-controled media outlet Global Times.

Such was the story’s wallop that the Chinese Embassy inwards Cambodia demanded local authorities investigate.

The initial enquiry suggested Li’s answer for was fake, according to a statement by the embassy. It said the story had “misled public legal opinion and seriously unnatural social order.”

Cambodian law told the embassy they believed Li had entered Kampuchea lawlessly and had sought-after(a) a local NGO for help because he was woe from a serious liver disease.

Police arrogate iii unnamed people from the NGO conspired with Li to cook up the “blood slave” story, although the motive is not clear.

The case will follow dealt with by the Kampuchean juridic authority, according to the Chinese embassy.

Trafficking Problem

Whether Li’s story is true or false, the publication of human trafficking linked to Cambodia’s resistance play industry is really real, and Sihanoukville is its epicenter.

Numerous reports have surfaced of people who get been deceived into workings for illegal Chinese-facing online gambling operations after answering untrue job advertisements.

Dozens of people have got been rescued o'er the utmost twelvemonth from compounds inward Sihanoukville, where they were held inward slave-like conditions, beaten, ransomed, and threatened to live sold for slave labor.

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