Saturday September 2, 2006
Phnom Penh- A top Cambodian police officer said Saturday he had received no information regarding the reported arrest and deportation from Singapore of a former Cambodian police chief wanted for two assassinations and three attempted murders. "I know nothing about this," Mok Chito, head of the criminal section of the Cambodian National Police and the officer handling the case against former Phnom Penh police chief Heng Pov, said by telephone.
Neither government spokesman Khieu Kanharith nor interior ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak were available for comment.
Singapore's Straits Times newspaper reported Saturday that Heng Pov was arrested on Friday for overstaying and sent back to Cambodia after he was handed over to immigration officials.
Formerly one of Cambodia's most powerful policemen, an undersecretary of state in the interior ministry and an advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen, Heng Pov fled to Singapore in late July. He sought asylum in Australia, but was turned down.
Cambodian officials have guaranteed his safety if returned, countering his claims that if he is handed over he will be killed, and have derided his claims that he has information that would implicate the government in high-level killings and that he will be denied a fair trial in Cambodia as attempts to garner sympathy.
Heng Pov is wanted for allegedly masterminding the April 2003 murder of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamony, who was shot in his car as he drove to work along a busy street.
Pov has also been linked to failed assassination attempts against a newspaper publisher, an electricity authority official and the national military police chief, the report said.
Heng Pov faces life imprisonment if convicted in Cambodia, which does not have the death penalty.
Neither government spokesman Khieu Kanharith nor interior ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak were available for comment.
Singapore's Straits Times newspaper reported Saturday that Heng Pov was arrested on Friday for overstaying and sent back to Cambodia after he was handed over to immigration officials.
Formerly one of Cambodia's most powerful policemen, an undersecretary of state in the interior ministry and an advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen, Heng Pov fled to Singapore in late July. He sought asylum in Australia, but was turned down.
Cambodian officials have guaranteed his safety if returned, countering his claims that if he is handed over he will be killed, and have derided his claims that he has information that would implicate the government in high-level killings and that he will be denied a fair trial in Cambodia as attempts to garner sympathy.
Heng Pov is wanted for allegedly masterminding the April 2003 murder of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamony, who was shot in his car as he drove to work along a busy street.
Pov has also been linked to failed assassination attempts against a newspaper publisher, an electricity authority official and the national military police chief, the report said.
Heng Pov faces life imprisonment if convicted in Cambodia, which does not have the death penalty.
5 comments:
hahaha...no one knows. say bye bye Heng Pov. it's time to pay the piper.
As I said earlier - It's Hanoi that handles this HENG POV, dead meat's crap, not those puppets in Phonm Penh.
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Comme j'ai deja mentione - c'est HANOI qui s'occupe de cette Viande Morte, Heng Pov, et non pas ces fantoches a P. Penh la.
10/02/06
AKnijaKhmer
Correction:
*s'occupe des affaires de cette Viande Morte...
10/02/06
AKnijaKhmer
TOO MUCH ANNOYING... OF NONSENSE.
POL POT, KHMER ROUGE, WAS BLA,BLA,BLA...ABOUT YOUN. EVERYWHERE AND EVRYTHING IS YOUN.
"Heng Pov is wanted for allegedly masterminding the April 2003 murder of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamony, who was shot in his car as he drove to work along a busy street."
Hun Sen is wanted of Master mind of actress, political activist,drug smuggling, grenade attack in 1997, KOR 5. Lundy for killing of Ho Sok....ALL CCP for given Cambodia to YOUN. why no one talk about those above?
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