Heng Pov: Singapore said he was deported to Malaysia on Friday. — AP picThe Star (Malaysia)
Monday September 4, 2006
He is also sought by police back home in connection with the murder of a Cambodian judge in 2003 and a Singaporean businessmen in 2004.
Federal CID director Datuk Fauzi Shaari said police were checking with the Malaysian Immigration Department to ascertain if Singaporean authorities had sent the former major-general here.
“There is no request from the Cambodian authorities to arrest him. If we receive such a notification, we will do the necessary.”
However, a Singaporean Immigration spokesman told The Star that Heng Pov was deported to Malaysia, via the Causeway, on Friday.
“We don’t know if he is still in Malaysia or has left.”
Heng Pov was detained on Friday evening at a hotel in Singapore for overstaying.
The spokesman said Singaporean police handed Heng Pov over to the island republic's Immigration Department for deportation.
Heng Pov, Phnom Penh police chief until last year, was one of Cambodia’s most powerful policemen before he was promoted as an undersecretary of state in the interior ministry and an advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
He fled to Kuala Lumpur on July 23 before going to Singapore and sought asylum in Australia, but was turned down.
Heng Pov was stripped of all government positions in July to make way for criminal action against him.
He was also linked to murder attempts on a newspaper publisher, an electricity authority official and the national military police chief.
Federal CID director Datuk Fauzi Shaari said police were checking with the Malaysian Immigration Department to ascertain if Singaporean authorities had sent the former major-general here.
“There is no request from the Cambodian authorities to arrest him. If we receive such a notification, we will do the necessary.”
However, a Singaporean Immigration spokesman told The Star that Heng Pov was deported to Malaysia, via the Causeway, on Friday.
“We don’t know if he is still in Malaysia or has left.”
Heng Pov was detained on Friday evening at a hotel in Singapore for overstaying.
The spokesman said Singaporean police handed Heng Pov over to the island republic's Immigration Department for deportation.
Heng Pov, Phnom Penh police chief until last year, was one of Cambodia’s most powerful policemen before he was promoted as an undersecretary of state in the interior ministry and an advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
He fled to Kuala Lumpur on July 23 before going to Singapore and sought asylum in Australia, but was turned down.
Heng Pov was stripped of all government positions in July to make way for criminal action against him.
He was also linked to murder attempts on a newspaper publisher, an electricity authority official and the national military police chief.
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