Brian Calvert, VOA KhmerOriginal report from Washington
09 October 2007
The trial date for accused Cambodian Freedom Fighter Chhun Yasith has been delayed, a US court official said Tuesday, a day proceedings had been scheduled to begin.
The trial is now scheduled to be held early next year, said a spokesman for the Department of Justice in California, where Chhun Yasith faces federal charges of inciting a Cambodian coup in November 2000 and tax fraud in the US.
The coup charges stem from 90 minutes of violence on Nov. 24, 2000 between forces claiming to be members of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters and government troops that led to the deaths of at least four men.
The tax charges assert that Chhun Yasith, a Long Beach accountant, and wife Sras Pech bilked fraudulent tax returns from the federal government using information from Cambodian immigrants.
A police official in Phnom Penh told VOA Khmer Tuesday a delegation of witnesses against Chhun Yasith had prepared for trial in October, but had been told by US federal officers they would not be needed until later in the year.
The trial is now scheduled to be held early next year, said a spokesman for the Department of Justice in California, where Chhun Yasith faces federal charges of inciting a Cambodian coup in November 2000 and tax fraud in the US.
The coup charges stem from 90 minutes of violence on Nov. 24, 2000 between forces claiming to be members of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters and government troops that led to the deaths of at least four men.
The tax charges assert that Chhun Yasith, a Long Beach accountant, and wife Sras Pech bilked fraudulent tax returns from the federal government using information from Cambodian immigrants.
A police official in Phnom Penh told VOA Khmer Tuesday a delegation of witnesses against Chhun Yasith had prepared for trial in October, but had been told by US federal officers they would not be needed until later in the year.
5 comments:
It is like a joke to call one person : CFF.
Hun Sen intend to send a group of people. Save the money to help Cambodians.
Collateral damage for improved relations between US and CPP via Hanoi intervention.
Hanoi is CPP khmauch khnong to get in US pockets.
Chhun Yasith should be freed! AH HUN SEN Vietcong puppet is so eager to please his master the Vietcong and Uncle SAM can please the Vietcong even more by putting Chhun Yasith in jail! What Chhun Yasith had done was to rescue Cambodian people from the Vietcong puppet and if you don't believe me and you should look at how the Vietcong kidnapped Cambodian monk Tim Sakorn to be jail in Vietname!
The Vietcong had committed a terrorist act against Cambodia and Cambodian people and the Vietcong must be stopped from terrorize Cambodian people again!
May God Bless You, Come Home Soon... My Friend.
One person, my arse, 4:53. With the money that we robed from people, he hired thousands and paid them peanut for their lives. The guy should be lock up for life for abusing people.
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