Cambodian deputy PM denies link with drug case
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Nhiek Bun Chay on Tuesday denied that he had any connection with the drug ring that was busted by the police on Sunday.
Ring leader "Chea Cheung was my personal adviser while I worked as co-minister of national defense. But after I stopped being co-minister of national defense, Chea was fired from the position," said Nhiek Bun Chay, also secretary general of the co-ruling Funcinpec Party, in a statement.
The 20-hectare land in Kompong Speu province, where the ring's laboratory and production site were located, "was not my property, either," he said, while mentioning local media reports that alleged he had the ownership of the land.
On Sunday respectively in Phnom Penh and Kompong Speu, the police arrested 14 Cambodians, three Chinese and one Thai, together with three tons of chemicals for drug production, possibly the largest ever drug bust for the kingdom.
Chea Cheung, widely reported as leader of these suspects, is still at large.
Police source told Xinhua that the land in Kompong Sepu belonged to Chea Cheung, but he had given part of it to Nhiek Bun Chay as gift.
A number of senior government and military officials had been detained for investigation in relation with the case.
According to official reports, Cambodia saw more cross-country drug trafficking cases in the past years, as the regional Mekong River was repeatedly utilized as an important passage for such crimes.
Drug rings have been attempting to develop Cambodia into a transit point as well as production base of their products, the reports said.
In 2005, Cambodia cracked 346 drug-related cases, arrested almost 400 drug traffickers and seized 330,000 ecstasy pills.
Source: Xinhua
Ring leader "Chea Cheung was my personal adviser while I worked as co-minister of national defense. But after I stopped being co-minister of national defense, Chea was fired from the position," said Nhiek Bun Chay, also secretary general of the co-ruling Funcinpec Party, in a statement.
The 20-hectare land in Kompong Speu province, where the ring's laboratory and production site were located, "was not my property, either," he said, while mentioning local media reports that alleged he had the ownership of the land.
On Sunday respectively in Phnom Penh and Kompong Speu, the police arrested 14 Cambodians, three Chinese and one Thai, together with three tons of chemicals for drug production, possibly the largest ever drug bust for the kingdom.
Chea Cheung, widely reported as leader of these suspects, is still at large.
Police source told Xinhua that the land in Kompong Sepu belonged to Chea Cheung, but he had given part of it to Nhiek Bun Chay as gift.
A number of senior government and military officials had been detained for investigation in relation with the case.
According to official reports, Cambodia saw more cross-country drug trafficking cases in the past years, as the regional Mekong River was repeatedly utilized as an important passage for such crimes.
Drug rings have been attempting to develop Cambodia into a transit point as well as production base of their products, the reports said.
In 2005, Cambodia cracked 346 drug-related cases, arrested almost 400 drug traffickers and seized 330,000 ecstasy pills.
Source: Xinhua
3 comments:
Hey Bun Chhay,
It is a common understanding that "Birds of the same feather flock together".
Just Save him, If not so he will disappear
We should keep him for being employed for Future other cases...
and Finally if he is useless any more we will throw him in the garbage Bin......
ACCORDING THE CAMBODIA'S SNOOPY, SMUCHY, GOOFY GAME, CHEA CHEUNG IS PERHAPS DEAD TO COVER UP THE LINKAGE.
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