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| Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To was the subject of recent drug allegations by Australian newspaper The Age. Photo by Photo Supplied |
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Phnom Penh Post
“I have checked the information, and it’s not true,” (sic!) Khieu Sopheak said. “Hun To’s name has no record of involvement with drug crimes, and his name does not appear in the blacklist of any global drug network. (sic!)
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia.
Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans to file a lawsuit against The Age in both Cambodia and Australia.
“I will meet [Minster of Interior] Khieu Sopheak to file a complaint to the Ministry of Interior, and then I will file another complaint to the Australian Embassy,” Hun To said. “I will also hire a foreign lawyer in Australia to work on this case and demand the newspaper show evidence of my involvement in those crimes.”
The Age yesterday reported that the Australian Crime Commission targeted Hun To in a 2002-2004 inquiry dubbed Operation Illipango that investigated heroin shipped from Cambodia into Australia hidden inside loads of timber.
However, Australian police plans to arrest Hun To were derailed when an Australian embassy official in Phnom Penh denied Hun To a visa to Australia, believing his arrest could create a “diplomatic incident”, The Age reported.
Hun To yesterday said he had, in fact, been refused an entry visa to Australia by the embassy in 2003 because the Australian government was suspicious of his involvement with transnational drug crimes, but he had since been cleared.
“There is no denial of visas for me – I visited Australia three or four months ago,” he said.
“To tell the truth, two years ago, I was offered Australian nationality, but I did not accept it,” he added, saying that he refused because it would not look good for him to have a foreign passport because he is related to senior political families.
He also criticised The Age for publishing the story “without any evidence”.
“You are a newspaper in a state of law,” he said. “If I was involved in crimes like that, there would be no need for Australia to arrest me, Prime Minister Hun Sen would order me arrested in our country.”
The Age said it was not in a position to comment yesterday when contacted by the Post, as relevant staff were not available.
The Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh said it “understands recent media reports on investigations into regional drug trafficking networks relate to events that allegedly occurred some years ago”.
“It is not appropriate for the embassy to comment on individual visa applicants or law enforcement matters,” an embassy spokesperson said.
The Australian Crime Commission likewise said it would not comment on operational matters.
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak yesterday said he had met with Hun To’s lawyer to discuss The Age’s report and his lawyer would file a complaint imminently.
“I have checked the information, and it’s not true,” Khieu Sopheak said. “Hun To’s name has no record of involvement with drug crimes, and his name does not appear in the blacklist of any global drug network.
“If there were [allegations], the Australian authorities will contact Cambodian authorities, because we have worked closely with Australia on combating drug trafficking,” he added.
Reached yesterday, Hun To’s father, Kampong Cham Province governor Hun Neng, denied his son’s involvement with drug-trafficking or money-laundering crimes.
However, Hun Neng told the Post that Hun To’s wife’s brother-in-law had been arrested on drug-trafficking charges and put in an Australian jail some years ago.
Hun Neng said that due to his son’s chance connection with the felon, whose name he could not recall, Hun To had been accidentally implicated in drug trafficking.
“As I remember, in the early 2000s, To’s wife used his phone to call her brother-in-law, so when that man was arrested, they found To’s number in connection with him, but this problem has been solved already,” Hun Neng said, adding that the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh “knew about this”.
When asked about The Age’s report after his meeting with his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong yesterday, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said: “I cannot confirm that news, and I would not comment in any case on a law enforcement matter.”
The Australian Crime Commission’s 2011 organised crime report says that Cambodia, along with Vietnam, remains a springboard for heroin trafficked from Southeast Asia into Australia.
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To contact the reporters on this story: Chhay Channyda at chhay.channyda@phnompenhpost.com
Bridget Di Certo at bridget.dicerto@phnompenhpost.com
16 comments:
Hun To here's a free tip for you - quick, grab Bob Carr while he's visiting PPenh and ask him for a Certificate of Good Citizenry, with EkOudom Khieu Sopheak as main witness.
“As I remember, in the early 2000s, To’s wife used his phone to call her brother-in-law, so when that man was arrested, they found To’s number in connection with him, but this problem has been solved already,” Hun Neng said, adding that the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh “knew about this”.
The Aussie embassy know so much about this that's why they DENIED Lauk To a visa!! what cockamamie story. Let's see if the squirming catches on.. with da big Uncle..c'mon Lauk Mea Chuoy khmuoy phang..lol
this is the way of vietcong trying to clean up all HUN family out and set up a new vietcong generation that the way vietname they play the game over and over to khmer people ( when the old one get smell bad clean up and set the new one ) Mr hun to you should take the gun shoot Mr.SOk kong ang Mr. Sok Arn and get the bom blow vietname ,Because,vietname the one that releace information so do your matematic and ask yourself why australia just releace that information right now ?
this is the way of vietcong trying to clean up all HUN family out and set up a new vietcong generation that the way vietname they play the game over and over to khmer people ( when the old one get smell bad clean up and set the new one ) Mr hun to you should take the gun shoot Mr.SOk kong ang Mr. Sok Arn and get the bom blow vietname ,Because,vietname the one that releace information so do your matematic and ask yourself why australia just releace that information right now ?
this is the way of vietcong trying to clean up all HUN family out and set up a new vietcong generation that the way vietname they play the game over and over to khmer people ( when the old one get smell bad clean up and set the new one ) Mr hun to you should take the gun shoot Mr.SOk kong ang Mr. Sok Arn and get the bom blow vietname ,Because,vietname the one that releace information so do your matematic and ask yourself why australia just releace that information right now ?
this is the way of vietcong trying to clean up all HUN family out and set up a new vietcong generation that the way vietname they play the game over and over to khmer people ( when the old one get smell bad clean up and set the new one ) Mr hun to you should take the gun shoot Mr.SOk kong ang Mr. Sok Arn and get the bom blow vietname ,Because,vietname the one that releace information so do your matematic and ask yourself why australia just releace that information right now ?
time up ar-choy-mray hun all
Hun To, if I were you I will turn myself in and make a plead bargin deal for a lesser sentence instead of life in prison. The Australian Crime Commission dept. has tons of evidences about your drugs involvements. You are lucky that the Aussie Embassy denied your Visa, otherwise you will be detained already. So, don't try to denied your innocent.
Late Theng Bun Ma was never dare to sue Nath Thayer when the Magazine Far Eastern Economy Rewiews revealed "The Necotine State ".
Bun Rany never sue the l'Express Magazine in France by accusing her as the Killer of Pisith Pilika.
This time we wait and see the law sue against the Age of Melbourne.
Would be this happend this time ?
Je crois que le gouvernement d'autralien fait et fera tout pour le mettre en prison à vie cette personne qui cause tant souffrances au peuple Khmer, y compris leur famille.
I have a friend whose name ended up in "NO FLIGHT" on Homeland Security watchlist and it took him two years to clear out his name.
In England a WWII vet who is mid 80 year old received the letter from the Department of Defence to recall him to serve in armed services for Gulf war I in 1991.
It is time for you to stop destroying Cambodia Trakol Ah Hun Chor.
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please see the following
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+age%2C+hun+to&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Please see the following :
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+age%2C+hun+to&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
http://www.theage.com.au/national/investigations/drugs-our-man-in-cambodia-20120325-1vsiz.html
thank you very much to ki media to show hun to face.
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