PHNOM PENH, Nov 2 (AFP) - A Cambodian court has sentenced a Taiwanese man to 37 years in jail for drug smuggling and possession of illegal weapons, a judge said Monday.
Judge Chhay Kong of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court said he sentenced 21-year-old Hsiao Kuo-leang on Friday after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin and possession of two handguns.
Hsiao, who was arrested in late 2008 when authorities found the drugs in his car, was also ordered to pay a fine of 25,000 dollars, the judge said.
The judge added that Hsiao also testified that he was hired by another Taiwanese man to set up a laboratory in order to produce drugs to smuggle out of Cambodia.
In recent years a number of Taiwanese nationals, including a 90-year-old man, have been jailed for attempting to smuggle narcotics out of the Cambodian capital.
Although drug arrests have increased, Cambodia is becoming an increasingly popular trafficking point for methamphetamines and heroin, particularly since neighbouring Thailand toughened its stance on illegal drugs.
Judge Chhay Kong of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court said he sentenced 21-year-old Hsiao Kuo-leang on Friday after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin and possession of two handguns.
Hsiao, who was arrested in late 2008 when authorities found the drugs in his car, was also ordered to pay a fine of 25,000 dollars, the judge said.
The judge added that Hsiao also testified that he was hired by another Taiwanese man to set up a laboratory in order to produce drugs to smuggle out of Cambodia.
In recent years a number of Taiwanese nationals, including a 90-year-old man, have been jailed for attempting to smuggle narcotics out of the Cambodian capital.
Although drug arrests have increased, Cambodia is becoming an increasingly popular trafficking point for methamphetamines and heroin, particularly since neighbouring Thailand toughened its stance on illegal drugs.
5 comments:
These fucken Foreigners must teach them a lesson for polluted cambodia with illegal durgs, sex, porns, crimes, human trafficking, put these fucker away for along long time....
I agree! Civil war in Cambodia was cause by Foreigners.
2:18PM! Cambodia government and police have to do the work first to cutch the bad guys!
12:07AM if the wars cayse by your foreigners it would not called 'civil war"
12:07AM,
It's because of foreign intervention that cause us to fight amongst each other. Cambodia was neutral during the Shitnam war. Somehow we got involved later on in the war. Our country split between two factions. The American and the Shitnamese are responsible for all of it.
It was meant to go to 4:11Am and not 12:07Am. Sorry!
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