Background
Located off National Road 8 in Prey Veng Province, #8 Park is a short distance from the border checkpoint with Vietnam. It is also known as Meun Chey Commercial City andLegend Park. Although construction only began in late 2023, the compound has already grown to occupy a large area. The first phase covers over 2.2 square kilometres, which expanded to an even larger area to the east. Parts of the park have been completed and have been operational since 2024, while others were still under construction when a nationwide crackdown on scam sites commenced in January 2026.
The compound has a range of amenities that can be seen from outside, including supermarkets, KTV, and restaurants.
The park itself is built around an artificial lake, surrounded by residential and office buildings. The perimeter is highly secure, with a high metal fence. Security guards control all entrance and exit points.
Cyber Scam Monitor has obtained three construction permits related to the park. They were issued in July 2024, March 2025, and again in March 2025. Collectively they approved the construction of hundreds of buildings covering over 620,000 square metres, and appear to apply to the various phases of the development of this massive complex.
In July 2025, The Japan News reported that Fukuoka prefectural police had uncovered scam operations at the site, after a man from the area was recruited to work there. He allegedly engaged in law enforcement impersonation scams targeting people in Japan. A local driver told the Japanese reporters that individuals of various nationalities live inside, and ‘everyone knows that this is a fraud base’. One local official said: ‘They may bring a lot of economic benefits, but they make me uneasy.’
#8 Park appears in many posts on Telegram channels used by scam industry operators. People complain about unpaid wages by companies operating there, as well as brutal treatment for poor performance, and demands that people pay high ‘compensation’ to be allowed leave. Several posts mention operators inside the compound that relocated there from Myanmar after crackdowns. Cyber Scam Monitor is aware of several cases where foreigners have appealed for help to escape the compound.
Evacuation
In mid-January 2026, scam compounds across the country were informed of a coming crackdown and gradually began to open up. In the following weeks dozens of compounds either allowed people to leave, or workers rushed the gates and escaped. Actual law enforcement action was initially minimal, beyond establishing roadblocks and checking foreigners’ passports. Police activity increased in February, with a handful of raids taking place.
While compounds nationwide were opening up, #8 Park continued to operate, even as other major and previously untouchable compounds opened or were subject to inspections. Mekong Independent noted some movement, but not on the scale seen elsewhere. One post that circulated on Telegram channels showed a security guard holding up a sign telling people in Khmer, Chinese, and English that if they were trafficked or forced to work they should contact security for assistance. However, while some people did leave, the gates remained closed, and messages on industry Telegram groups indicate scam operators in the park continued to recruit people.
The situation changed drastically the following month. On 9 February, a notice was shared on Telegram channels that was alleged to have come from #8 Park property management. It instructed all shops in the park to vacate by 13 February (after paying rent and monthly shop commissions of 25%).
We cannot verify the authenticity of this notice, but the following day images and videos began to circulate showing large numbers of people leaving the park. This included clips of dozens of buses parked outside the park, indicating that many workers were relocated rather than released. Others fled by taxi, tuktuk, or on foot. Posts indicate that thousands of people have now fled.
Which Actors and Companies Have Been Linked to #8 Park / Legend Park?
It has long been rumoured that Huione Group is an investor in the park. There is a sign on the exterior of the site that reads ក្រុមហ៊ុន លេជេន អ៊ិននើវេសិន ឯ.ក (Company Legend Innovation Co., Ltd.). This is the company named in the construction permits mentioned above.
Legend Innovation Co., Ltd. is registered in Cambodia at the address of Huione Insurance PLC. Huione maintains a prominent place in the park, with stores inside required to use Huione Pay for purchases, and Huione Logistics offering shipping and delivery services.
The now offline website of the company Huione Technology Co., Ltd. included a design image of #8 Park. Huione Technology changed its name to Holink Control technology Co., Ltd. in early 2025.
The Huione Group has a range of business interests but is best known for its payment and guarantee services, which have become synonymous with the regional scam industry. In 2024, the blockchain analytics firm Elliptic described Huione as the ‘largest illicit online marketplace to have ever operated’, with transactions via its guarantee marketplace reaching US$24 billion by the end of 2024. In May 2025, the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified Huione as a ‘primary money laundering concern’ and in October issued a final rule that severed it from the U.S. financial system. In October 2025, the Indian Ministry of Finance’s Financial Intelligence Unit issued a notice of non-compliance to Huione under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
In a February 2026 report, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic also linked the compound to Prince Group, which was sanctioned in October 2025 by the United Kingdom and United States for its alleged links to online scams. (We encourage readers to check out the full Elliptic report here.)
Elliptic identified that the phone number associated with Legend Innovation on the Cambodian business register has also been used by the company Cambodian Heng Xin Real Estate Co., Ltd., which is connected to the Prince Group (and is subject to US and UK sanctions).
The chairman of Legend Innovation Co., Ltd. is Cambodian national Eang Soklim. Eang’s Facebook page includes several years of posts showing him at Prince Group events, including multiple photos of philanthropic events around the country with sanctioned individual Ing Dara, who is linked to the companies behind Jin Bei 1, Jin Bei 2, Jin Bei 3, Jin Bei 4, Jin Bei 5, Jin Bei 6, and Golden Fortune scam compounds.
Location of #8 Park / Legend Park
#8 Park / Legend Park in the News
2026
4 February: ‘#8 Park: Prince and Huione’s role in a scam compound still operating amid crackdowns’, Elliptic. Link.
21 January: Mech Dara, ‘Scam exodus reaches remote compounds’, Mekong Independent. Link.
2025
11 July: Shunpei Takeuchi & Kosuke Okabayashi, ‘Cambodian Compounds Allegedly Serve as Fraud Bases; Chinese Crime Syndicates Believed to Be Operating Massive Scam Centers’, The Japan Times. Link in English. Link in Japanese. Link in Chinese.
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