Written by Chrann Chamroeun
The Phnom Penh Post
PHNOM Penh Municipal Court has charged 19 people for using forged documents in an attempt to sell the government's Fisheries Administration offices on Norodom Boulevard, court officials said Thursday.
"Seventeen suspects were charged with using forged public documents. The additional two, who are believed to be the masterminds of the fraud plot [and include] RCAF Lieutenant-Colonel Saphan Dara ... were charged with forging documents," said deputy prosecutor Kry Sok Y.
Investigating Judge Chan Madyna is expected to rule soon on whether the suspects will be detained pending trial, but could not be reached for comment Thursday.
National Police Commissioner Mok Chito told the Post that "it might be too late for the court to release a warrant to detain [the suspects]," but he was confident the court would work on the case "in a careful way".
Sok Sam Oeun, director of the Cambodian Defenders Project, said the suspects could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Yong Kim Eng, president of the People's Centre for Development & Peace, said that the attempted fraud was a sign of wider problems facing the country.
"Land speculation is a big concern.... Public property belongs to the people, not to individuals," he said.
"Seventeen suspects were charged with using forged public documents. The additional two, who are believed to be the masterminds of the fraud plot [and include] RCAF Lieutenant-Colonel Saphan Dara ... were charged with forging documents," said deputy prosecutor Kry Sok Y.
Investigating Judge Chan Madyna is expected to rule soon on whether the suspects will be detained pending trial, but could not be reached for comment Thursday.
National Police Commissioner Mok Chito told the Post that "it might be too late for the court to release a warrant to detain [the suspects]," but he was confident the court would work on the case "in a careful way".
Sok Sam Oeun, director of the Cambodian Defenders Project, said the suspects could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Yong Kim Eng, president of the People's Centre for Development & Peace, said that the attempted fraud was a sign of wider problems facing the country.
"Land speculation is a big concern.... Public property belongs to the people, not to individuals," he said.
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Let say they did successfully forged documents and sold the building. Wouldn't the gov't find out later that the building is no longer belong to the state, but to someone or a company, and that they would come for them?
4:10 PM
That bastard Hun Sen is always up to something stupid.
The NGOs are doing a wonderful job in helping the country and the poor and the bastard want to silenced them.
If you like the yuon democracy, go live in Hanoi, where life is always happy and nobody complaint or criticize the government.
With a government so incompetent and abusing its power all the time. It's not hard to be smarter than CPP. Even my dog learn faster than Hun Sen.
Give the country a break, go to the crocodile farm in Siem Reap and jump.
9:18 PM That is HUN SEN crocodile farm , He can't just go there and jump in like that , it have to have HUN sen permission , May be he will be send over there by HUN sen one day..
Well, NGO did not save Khmer people from the Khmer Rouge, only Hun Sen and Viet did all that.
11:17 PM
The crocodiles like Hun Sen and CPP steaks. So jump.
Hey ah Yuon you are behinb the killing field and you want us to thank you.
Are you fucking nuts, the day Hun Sen dies you will be all deported.
You should be thanking ah Sihanouk for helping you skins, if not you would be exterminated by the American.
So you can kiss my ass for gratitude Tep Wong.
Even if the p.m pass away , and he will not .god protect him,, CPP will still be in control and our savior friend ,the viets, are going to stay with us forever ,through thick and thin ,in health and sickness., and all of you bastards can't do a damned thing about that.You got that losers.
Yea Hun Sen will live forever to protect the Tep Wongs.
LOL.
There is one thing China and Cambodia got in common, we don't like Yuon trouble makers.
So start praying.
Thank Hun Sen for the of Colonel if he really sold government building and already paid Hun Sen $1 million.
Why Hun Sen let Mong Reththy (the one that destroy Khmer Fine Art school buildings) and Lao Meng Khin ( the one who destroy Cardemon -Phnom Kravanh mountain and 300,000 hectares of land) to sit on the first row even before other senior ministers?
Some people thought that absolute victory of CPP would bring stability.
Unfortunately! after the defeat of all gentle and harmless opponents, it is the time that CPP's Hun Sen fight against CPP's Chea Sim and Sar Kheng. and Kith Meng's group fight against Mong Reththy Group.
Even though Chea Sim is old, but thousand of his supporters are as young as 30 years old, would not let Hun Sen dynasty to rule for more than 29+10.
The internal fight among CPP is the most frighting scenario in Cambodia because all sides have weapons and aggressive. They are speechless but violent.
After Lon Nol and royalist supporters were destroyed, Khmer Rouge fought each other, remember?
Well, if we don't do that Hun Xen will take them all.
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