Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Convicted Cambodian police chief's family in poverty

September 9, 2008
ABC Radio Australia

The family of former Phnom Penh police chief, Heng Pov, has asked the courts to unfreeze nearly $US1 million seized after his arrest.

The Phnom Penh Post reports one of Heng Pov's three daughters living in Cambodia says she and her two sisters have been forced to drop of out university and are living in poverty.

The former police chief's wife and his three other children are currently living in Finland, where Heng Pov was granted asylum in 2007 before being returned to Cambodia by Malaysian authorities.

Heng Pov is serving a 58 year prison sentence for several charges, including murder, counterfeiting, extortion and kidnapping.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

No, they are not in poverty. drop out is not caused by poverty, many poor students couldn't even affort to pay their fees and living, but they stil could complete their study.

They are just greedy, or make a show to the outside community to gain more sympathy, but they forgot how many people were suffered during his reign.

Anonymous said...

Move your family into jail with you.
This guy a killer, used his power to harms other Khmer. I think, he should be beheaded.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Kith Meng will be the next Heng Pov!

Anonymous said...

What is go up it has to come down. The next one is the prime minister.

Anonymous said...

11:24 PM

Agreed! And I second that!

Anonymous said...

I despise all criminal activities done by bad guys. But the children of the bad, in my opinion, have little or perhaps nothing to do with those crime. Have love towards them and partially unfreeze their assets so that they may become good and productive citizens. Remember, those children have nothing to do with the accused criminal activities. Love the children please. Thank you.

Anonymous said...

TO 12:25AM
DO THE ASSETS generated from the Criminal Activities? if Yes! we should not give it to the criminal's children but to the children of the victimes!

Please love and held the children of the honesty people vitimized by the criminals!

Anonymous said...

I hope the chief rot in hell.

Anonymous said...

1:08AM,
We do not know exactly how the rich assets get accumulated. But Heng Pov had his salary when he was working as chief of police and so we must be kind and loving to "all" children including those whose parent(s) are wicked and doing bad things. Those children can be as innocent as any other victims. Pol Pot's children are still walking among us and we love them as well. Please love all children so that they can smile on a daily basis. Life overall and in its entirety is bad. Let us be kind to all children. Thank you.

Anonymous said...

To 12:25a.m and 7:50a.m,
Please stop these non-sense! We all love children, Heng Pov's family has been granted assylum in Finland right....Please be advised Finland is not a poor like Cambodia o.k. I live in New York forever, since I was 14 I had never seen U.S. gov't gave dirty money to the criminal's family....never...in my life. He was a police chief and have $1million in the bank! I never seen any police chief in New York has $1million in the bank. All these funds have to be earned thru some sort of criminal activities! Did you read the news what Heng Pov did to a female vendor? That was far cruel than the faith of his children droped out of school!

Back to 1:08am, I agreed with you 100% you are seem to be very educated person, and I'm very proud of you. May lord Buddha bless you and your family.

Justice prevail
Regards,
KhmerNY

Anonymous said...

Why are you still talking about Heng Pov...
you sould talk about criminal Hun Sen and Hoc Lundy... they are still power at the present in your country...