Khaou ChulyOkhna to petition for wife’s release on bail
Monday, 12 July 2010
Chrann Chamroeun
The Phnom Penh Post
A PROMINENT businessman whose wife stands accused of masterminding a murder plot plans to petition government officials for her release on bail, his lawyer said yesterday.
The court last week charged Seng Chanda with attempted premeditated murder in connection with an alleged plot that targeted Sun Chantha, the daughter of Seng Chanda’s husband, Okhna Khaou Chuly. Suv Chantha is also the wife of Sun Chanthol, vice chairman of the Council for the Development of Cambodia and a former minister of public works and transport.
A complaint filed June 16 by Sun Chantha accuses two men and two women of attempting to rape and murder her and her daughter. According to the complaint, they approached the family’s house in Sen Sok district in the early morning hours of June 13 after drugging the family’s guard dogs. The complaint asserts that the plot was foiled after Sun Chantha woke up.
Lim Vanna, Khaou Chuly’s lawyer, said the request being drafted by his client would be sent to senior government officials and the municipal court.
“I know that Okhna has been writing personal letters to senior officials and the Phnom Penh Municipal Court seeking the release of his wife, because he is lonely and too old at home,” Lim Vanna said.
Judge Te Sam Ang ordered that Seng Chanda be placed in pretrial detention on Thursday morning, one day after charging her. He said yesterday that he could not comment on the prospect of her being released on bail because he had not seen any letter from Khaou Chuly.
Lim Vanna said the decision would rest solely with the investigating judge, despite the fact that government officials were also being petitioned.
“It is the judge’s right to make this decision whether or not to release her on bail,” he said, and added that the court would be kept informed of Seng Chanda’s whereabouts in the run-up to any trial.
Pol Chandara, a government lawyer representing Sun Chantha, declined to comment on the pending bail request in light of the fact that the case was still being investigated.
He said, though, that he believed it would be more appropriate to send a letter to the court than to government officials. “The government officials cannot interfere in the court’s affairs during the court’s investigation,” he said.
Okhna Khaou Phallaboth, the son of Khaou Chuly and younger brother of Sun Chantha, yesterday expressed regret that a “small internal dispute in the family” had ended up in court. He declined to describe the dispute’s origins.
“I firmly believe that my father’s wife would not do such a foolish thing as to order the rape and murder of my older sister,” he said.
The court last week charged Seng Chanda with attempted premeditated murder in connection with an alleged plot that targeted Sun Chantha, the daughter of Seng Chanda’s husband, Okhna Khaou Chuly. Suv Chantha is also the wife of Sun Chanthol, vice chairman of the Council for the Development of Cambodia and a former minister of public works and transport.
A complaint filed June 16 by Sun Chantha accuses two men and two women of attempting to rape and murder her and her daughter. According to the complaint, they approached the family’s house in Sen Sok district in the early morning hours of June 13 after drugging the family’s guard dogs. The complaint asserts that the plot was foiled after Sun Chantha woke up.
Lim Vanna, Khaou Chuly’s lawyer, said the request being drafted by his client would be sent to senior government officials and the municipal court.
“I know that Okhna has been writing personal letters to senior officials and the Phnom Penh Municipal Court seeking the release of his wife, because he is lonely and too old at home,” Lim Vanna said.
Judge Te Sam Ang ordered that Seng Chanda be placed in pretrial detention on Thursday morning, one day after charging her. He said yesterday that he could not comment on the prospect of her being released on bail because he had not seen any letter from Khaou Chuly.
Lim Vanna said the decision would rest solely with the investigating judge, despite the fact that government officials were also being petitioned.
“It is the judge’s right to make this decision whether or not to release her on bail,” he said, and added that the court would be kept informed of Seng Chanda’s whereabouts in the run-up to any trial.
Pol Chandara, a government lawyer representing Sun Chantha, declined to comment on the pending bail request in light of the fact that the case was still being investigated.
He said, though, that he believed it would be more appropriate to send a letter to the court than to government officials. “The government officials cannot interfere in the court’s affairs during the court’s investigation,” he said.
Okhna Khaou Phallaboth, the son of Khaou Chuly and younger brother of Sun Chantha, yesterday expressed regret that a “small internal dispute in the family” had ended up in court. He declined to describe the dispute’s origins.
“I firmly believe that my father’s wife would not do such a foolish thing as to order the rape and murder of my older sister,” he said.
10 comments:
can they let their father happy and give some wealth to his younger wife?
they are verry rich, it's worth above 100 million i'm sure!
The rich are smallin the hearth!!!!!
You children will eat you like kouv 's children ah Kwack!!!! take care your dick head now!
Don't worry CHULY, in Cambodia, money is justice:
LUY LEK MUOY,
KADUOY LEK PI,
PARTY LEK BEI.
Is he the real richest man in Cambodia?
don't cambodian men know how to masterbate and jack off to relieve that sexual tension? they think they have to do with the girl only? men, they are behind time. i say learn from the world! maybe they they should incorporate sex education in high schools there.
A woman, ex-wife of a 80 years-old man, accuse someone to rap her ???
Poor men, rap a 75 years-old woman :)
This is the personal issue, why using the govt's lawyers.
1:00 AM
Are you advocating masterbation?
nowadays, they invented dildos, too, use them, instead of the real one! my point is, we all can satisfy our sexual needs in some other ways with ourself. we can avoid a lot of headache and heartache that way, too, you know!
Why's he writing to government officials?? Because he knows, as we all do, that the his friends will help him get his wife off and the courts are useless.
I wonder how many other people in prison would like to have their wives or husbands home a lot more than simply because they are lonely and too old. How many people have suffered hardships because their bread-winners have been jailed for minor crimes (e.g. border posts, so-called defamation)? But they don't get to have their loved ones home on bail.
Attempted murder, rape and the hiring of hit men to commit the crimes against members of your own family??!! Surely, this person should be seeing a psychologist before they are allowed to be even in the company of other prisoners. They sound like a very dangerous person - just the sort of person who should be in prison and not out in public hiring hit men to murder witnesses.
However, I'm sure the old man's friends will make everything all ok. Lucky him.
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