Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Eleven people, including police and military officials, have been jailed over a logging scandal in which tonnes of timber was taken from a key Cambodian park.
The defendants, who also included forest rangers, were sentenced to between five and seven years in prison for allowing a Vietnamese company to log large swathes of the northeastern Virachey National Park.
Prosecutor Ngeth Sarath said logs with an estimated value of $US15 million were taken from the park in 2004.
Seven of the defendants remain at large and were sentenced in absentia.
Illegal logging is a major environmental issue in Cambodia, with vast tracts of forest coming under increasing threat.
The defendants, who also included forest rangers, were sentenced to between five and seven years in prison for allowing a Vietnamese company to log large swathes of the northeastern Virachey National Park.
Prosecutor Ngeth Sarath said logs with an estimated value of $US15 million were taken from the park in 2004.
Seven of the defendants remain at large and were sentenced in absentia.
Illegal logging is a major environmental issue in Cambodia, with vast tracts of forest coming under increasing threat.
4 comments:
Hun Sen, Sok An, Rannariddh,tao seng huor and other must be sentenced 100 times more then those 11 people.
More then a billion of dollars from loggins business were taken to the pocket of those "Mafia" since 1993.
The Global Witness has all documents relate to that scheme.
Just curious,
Who will sentence Hun Sen, Sok An, Rannariddh, Tao Seng Huor and other.
One must me be out of his or her mind to sentence them.
Be realistic.
What should be done?
Thanks
Catch the big guys, I say.
hmm how is Tao Seng Huor implicated in all of this? He's in charge of rural development, he's got nothing to do with logging, so perhaps you should be looking at unscrupulous businessmen, or the current minister of agriculture, instead of just talking your asses off.
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