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| Chhoeun Chanthan, former head bodyguard for Chea Sim, arrives at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday. (Photo by: Pha Lina) |
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Tep Nimol
The Phnom Penh Post
Chhoeun Chanthan, Senate President Chea Sim’s former chief bodyguard, was charged with four criminal offences yesterday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and then sent to detention at the military court for possible questioning on a different offence.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sem Sakola questioned Chhoeun Chanthan for about four hours yesterday in relation to allegedly forged documents and the illegal possession of weapons.
Meas Chanpiseth, deputy prosecutor at the court, told journalists outside the courtroom that Chhoeun Chanthan had been charged with four criminal offences after two days of questioning: illegal possession of weapons, illegally issuing weapon licences, forging public documents and using forged public documents. If convicted on all four counts, Chhoeun Chanthan could face up to 25 years in prison and more than US$5,000 in fines.
Chhoeun Chanthan’s defence attorney Hol Sina declined to comment on the case yesterday.
Three-star general Yim Leang, who was named in a Royal decree as Chea Sim’s new bodyguard unit chief within hours of a military police raid on Chhoeun Chanthan’s Phnom Penh villa on Saturday, is a plaintiff in the case.
“Samdech Chea Sim decided to remove the position and rank of Mr Chhoeun Chanthan,” Yim Leang said yesterday. “This case is in the hands of the court, so let the court make its investigation.”
Yim Leang, whose father is Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chhay Li, did not say yesterday whether Chea Sim himself had also signed onto a complaint against his former head bodyguard. Nach Try, a lawyer representing plaintiffs in the case, said yesterday that Chhoeun Chanthan had committed additional “military offences” and would be sent for investigation at the military court.
“Mr Chhoeun Chanthan was sent to jail at the military court, because the suspect was also involved in a lot of other military offences,” he said.
A source at the municipal court, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Chhoeun Chanthan would be questioned at the military court in relation to budget losses and missing vehicles belonging to the Ministry of Defence.
Military court president Ney Thol, who is also a sitting judge at the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Pre-Trial Chamber, said that case was now in the hands of the military court prosecutor, but he did not know when questioning would commence.
21 comments:
Hun Sen acts exactely as Pol Pot,
Pol Pot used NIRDEI to neutralize other PHOUMAPHEAK and
Hun Sen jails all of his opponents, in and out of the party.
good! anyone that breaks the law, must go to jail, period, end of story. no talking bail until a minimum time is served, etc, you know! don't play with the rule of law, ok! this is not the dark ages era, nor the KR era, ok!
it goes to show nobody is above the law anymore, you know! cambodia doesn't care who you are, if you break the law, you pay for it, ok! we have to be strict so you won't break the law again, you know! what you expect? this is not the KR regime where there's no rule of law, ok!
He wouldn't have gotten arrested if he just asked Hun Sen to have a Miss.Cambodia contest and allow the winner to represent Miss.Cambodia in Miss.Universe.
What about ah Kwack gambling in the golf court and brag about it in National TV???
Motherfucker should go to jail????
I bet, ah Kwack has 1000 times more guns and armunition at his house than Chhoeun Chanthan!
Why ah Kwack not going to jail, too?
Peal Si Peal!!!
I bet, ah Kwack has 1000 times more guns and armunition at his house than Chhoeun Chanthan!
Why ah Kwack not going to jail, too?
12:45 AM
The answer is so easy:
Because Akwack Vear Kamchoss Youn. He is worst than Gadaffi or Saddam. Ony day his clans will disappear from Khmer Land.
Cambodia has law but can be enforced only to the benefits of the rich and powerful. The Kangaroo courts take order from Hun Sen. In the land cases the rightful owners of the land, the victims, go to jail while the land grabbers are awarded the land which don't belong to them.
Ah Hun Sen only takes orders from Ah Yuon, ok. Everyone must respect law, including Ah Hun Sen, you know. Ah Hun is a criminal, ok!
Civil war will be soon by CPP!
មិនត្រឹមតែមួយដើមឬពីដើមនោះទេអាវុទ្ធពេញទាំង
ស្រុកខ្មែរគឺជារបស់រាជរដ្ធាភិបាលទាំងអស់។
Oh, srok Khmer-numb-nut people. Your extinction as cambodia is no dumbfound.
You got jail term if you're innocent, in Cambodia, that is not new.....
Hun to he have more gun and
drug than that guy Cambodian law can't touch him even Hun sen won't let him go to his home because the only one Hun sen scare and he can't kill him because son of Hun neng. Ha.. Cambodian law
Well,if Hun Sen felt treated to his party.No matter what,he get rid of you.That his idea and ideals.This is for a replacing purpose only if felt treated to him and his party.Even,innocent labor union leader like Chea Vichea was killed.He also interference with international court of law defensed Khmer Rouge trial.If you, out there,don't think Khmer Rouge are breaking the law.Shame on you! Protecting your land and expressing you right are broken the laws.What kind of laws are they.They could only one law, law of one individual person or party of Hun Hen itself, PERIOD!
Why cropped out the picture of the vietcong?
peal si peal!!!!
I DO NOT THINK THAT ONLY CHHEURN CHANTHAN HAD COMMITTED THESE CRIMES, MANY MORE ONE-STAR, TWO-STAR, THREE-STAR, FOOR-STAR, AND A MILLION-STAR GENRAL MAY COMMITTED MILLION MORE CRIMES THAN MR. CHHEURN.
Hun Sen should be jailed 2,500 years.
Because he is a traitor and a Khmer
killer.
មានតែក្រុមជាស៊ឹមទេឬធឺនឹង ចុះក្រុមហសគ្មានទេហ្អី?
ជាស៊ីមម្ដេចឲ្យគេវាយឆ្កែខ្លួនបាន?
Hi Everyone,
One of KI-Media member who has his name in Facebook as Khmer Sovannaphumi but his real name is Pang Sokhoeun, former political asylum and now living in Sweden. He always copies news from here to post in his facebook profile to promote himself, but right now, he tries to remove and blocked anyone who dares to reveal his con activity particular he tries to hide what he has cheated his wife (Sreypov Chea) by having a girlfriend (Sokunthear Sam) behind his wife back. Now, his girlfriend had run way from him after she knew his cheating.
A con man Pang Sokhoeun as well as KI-Media like to insult to the government officers who have affairs, but himself does even worse than other people. What a shame!
When one person had posted in KI-Media and accused that a con man Pang Sokhoeun is a brother of Som Ek (former Chief of Tiger's head sign guerilla, who was arrested and put in prison by Cambodian government) during that time, a cheater Pang Sokhoeun came to deny in his blogs immediately and had pointed the blame to Mr. Sourn Serey Rotha, but this time, he has bury his head in the sand because he cannot deny the truth that he has cheated his wife. Right now, all he can do is removed and blocked anyone who dared to reveal his cheating.
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