The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: A court has sentenced two Taiwanese men to combined prison terms of 58 years for trying to smuggle 2.1 kilograms (4.6 pounds) of heroin out of Cambodia, a court official said Tuesday.
Sao Miech, a judge of Phnom Penh Municipal Court, convicted Yen Choan Hseh, 59, and his partner, 49-year-old Chi Tsung Lieh, during a trial Monday, said Plong Sophal, a court prosecutor.
The prosecutor said the judge sentenced Yen and Chi to 30 and 28 years in prison respectively on drug smuggling charges.
The judge also ordered both men to pay a total fine of 130 million riel (US$32,000; €23,800), Plong Sophal said.
He said police at Phnom Penh International Airport arrested the two men with the drug in their possession last October, when they checked in for a flight to Hong Kong.
He said the men hid the drug in their shoes.
Poeung Thyda, the lawyer for the Taiwanese men, said she plans to discuss a possible appeal with her clients.
In January, the same court convicted a 90-year-old Taiwanese man to 10 years in prison for trying to smuggle heroin out of the country.
Cambodia is not a major drug producer, but has increasingly become a smuggling transit route.
Sao Miech, a judge of Phnom Penh Municipal Court, convicted Yen Choan Hseh, 59, and his partner, 49-year-old Chi Tsung Lieh, during a trial Monday, said Plong Sophal, a court prosecutor.
The prosecutor said the judge sentenced Yen and Chi to 30 and 28 years in prison respectively on drug smuggling charges.
The judge also ordered both men to pay a total fine of 130 million riel (US$32,000; €23,800), Plong Sophal said.
He said police at Phnom Penh International Airport arrested the two men with the drug in their possession last October, when they checked in for a flight to Hong Kong.
He said the men hid the drug in their shoes.
Poeung Thyda, the lawyer for the Taiwanese men, said she plans to discuss a possible appeal with her clients.
In January, the same court convicted a 90-year-old Taiwanese man to 10 years in prison for trying to smuggle heroin out of the country.
Cambodia is not a major drug producer, but has increasingly become a smuggling transit route.
This definitely call for more
ReplyDeletejobs, jobs, jobs. The condition
will continued to get worse and
worse without a significant
increase in job availabilities.
Therefore, I don't care what it
takes to crate jobs, just do it.
If we have cut down more trees
to make land to create jobs, just
do it. If we have to cut more
night shift wages to create more
jobs, just do it. If we have to
cut more taxes, just do it... .
Every job count is very precious.
Punish them heavily, they are shit from their country. In their mind, Cambodia is only the heaven for shit peoples like them.
ReplyDeleteCambodia deserves a peaceful place like its peoples loving peace.
Nak Angkor
Phnom Penh
True, but that will never happened
ReplyDeleteunless people are busy working.
Otherwise, they will sell drugs,
trafficking prostitute and porn,
uprising against government and
neighbors, illegally logging, ...
and the list go on and on. That is
why I urged everyone to put jobs
on top of their list.
VOTE HIN SEN OUT AND THEN PUT SOMEONE WHO KNOW TO CREAT JOB FOR PEOPLE!
ReplyDeleteUNEDUCATED BUNCH ARE OUT OF DATE PUT THEM AS HONORARY FIGURE (NACK TA KNONG CHAM SROK)
RSP HAVE IDEAR TO PROMOTE MORE JOB FOR CAMBODIAN!
Well, show us some sample first
ReplyDeletebefore we vote for the SRP. With
Sam Nazi constanly thinking of
his friends and himself, I am
certain that we will lost most of
our jobs within a couple years
after he take the offices.
You are too biased and too negative about Rainsy. Have you seen his party is getting better and more young professional such as Engineers and some scientists secretly join him? The more he gains support from those young intellectual, I or my Dad won't hesitate to move our company to Cambodia. There're many thousand jobs. BUT, we need your degrees that we can use.
ReplyDeleteWe produce semiconductor Chips.
Fluke's Boy, Ah Sam Nazi aint no
ReplyDeleteGod. He's not better than the
Vietcong administrator, nor he's
any better than any of the Indian,
Malaysian, Phillipino,
administrators. What make you think
that he is? Does he has magic wand?
What?
I asked you the same thing, pal. Why do you think a Yuan's puppet Hun Sen should be allowed to wreck the whole country and now Cambodia has no border by that bastard?
ReplyDeleteWell, we will have border soon.
ReplyDeleteYeah, border of Yuan Hanoi with Thailand. I don't see Cambodia and Laos in the map. Since Thailand is being protected by the Great Britain and US, it will be Thailand and China. No more Cambodia, Laos and Yuan.
ReplyDeleteIf I were Cambodian I will sell Cambodia to the US.
Yeah, right, then we will be
ReplyDeletesunk into the ocean for sure, you
stupid idiot! Haven't you leant
what brought us into this mess in
the first place?