Friday, May 25, 2007

Heng Pov’s wife left Singapore for Finland?

Friday, May 25, 2007
Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

The wife of Heng Pov, the former Phnom Penh police chief, left Singapore to Finland after the Phnom Penh municipal court issued an arrest warrant for the Ministry of Interior (MoI) police to arrest her and bring her to court for questioning about the circulation of $30,000 in fake money. However, there is no confirmed information about Ngin Sotheavy’s departure yet.

According to report from the Phnom Penh municipal court, on 30 July 2006, the MoI police raided Heng Pov’s home located in Takhmao city, Kandal province, and they confiscated $300,000 in cash.

After a review, the police indicated that among the $300,000 confiscated, there was $30,000 in fake money included in the total amount. The police then built its case and sent the file to the court for further legal proceedings. Kry Sok Y, the deputy prosecutor of the Phnom Penh municipal court, decided to charge Ngin Sotheavy, Heng Pov’s wife, of circulating fake money, and the case was handed over to Judge Kem Ravy, the investigating judge.

At the time, the judge issued an arrest warrant ordering that Ngin Sotheavy be brought to the court for questioning on the charge brought against her. However, because the local authority indicated that Ngin Sotheavy was no longer in Cambodia, the judge issued another warrant for the police to look for her, arrest her, and bring her to court for questioning.

Since Ngin Sotheavy was staying in Singapore, the court ordered the MoI police to use legal means to arrest Ngin Sotheavy and deport her back to Cambodia. That was the reason why the authority canceled her passport as a mean to allow Singapore to extradite her back to Cambodia.

According to a source overseas, Ngin Sotheavy actively tried to obtain asylum in a third country by claiming that her arrest by the Cambodian court would be a violation of human rights, and would be unfair.

Recently, a reliable source indicated in Cambodia that Ngin Sotheavy already left Singapore to travel to Finland, but additional information from overseas on her departure is not available.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

If I were you Sotheavy, I would run fast. Not only I try to be at Helsinski but to the north pole instead.
The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistics. So, run baby run...

Anonymous said...

Sothary didn't run. She managed to escape from the Hun Sen clan and to live in a Country where the Court and the judical system are independant.

Anonymous said...

It took the court almost a year to think about arresting her? Why didn't the police question her during the raid and arrested her husband long time ago? Where they focusing more how to keep her money and didn't want to both arresting her. Is this a good police work?

Anonymous said...

Wrong, 8:15, right now I could run
an illegal scam in Cambodia, and
the police aint gonna do shit
until someone blows the wistle.
And by the time that happen, I'll
be long gone, Dude. Good bye,
Suckers!!!

Anonymous said...

Sotheavy Are you going to Remarried or not because I'm still available now Comment by Bross Songha Douch Kong Sam Eoun,lived in Massachussets.

Anonymous said...

So how much money do you got, bro?

Anonymous said...

For Sothary, Living in Finland is better than living in Cambodia where all the powers and institutions are in the hand of 1 man; Hun Sen

Anonymous said...

Well, 1 man is better 20 useless
men. It is the quality that we are
looking for, not quantity.

Anonymous said...

Everything is a setup by the Cambodian goverment. There is no justice in the Cambodian society. The government is the main reason to have it continued.

Anonymous said...

We don't care about justice right
now. What we want is jobs, jobs,
jobs, you morons (11:08)! And only
the government hearing our voice.
Oppositions don't care. They are
just having fund with stupidities
at the expense of our tax dollar.
What is a bunch of corrupted loud
mouths?