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| Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To was the subject of recent drug allegations by Australian newspaper The Age. Photo Supplied |
The influential nephew of Cambodia’s prime minister calls the report baseless.
2012-03-27
Radio Free Asia
“You think that if I am involved with drugs I would be able to stay [free] in Cambodia?” (Doh! or Toh!) - Hun To
The nephew of Cambodia’s prime minister Hun Sen on Tuesday denied reports that he is a suspect in police investigations into illegal drug running and money laundering activities in Australia.
On Monday, Australian newspaper The Age published a report which named Hun To as the target of an inquiry into a crime syndicate police said was importing more than 1 billion Australian dollars (U.S. $1.05 billion) into the country annually, with connections to government and policing officials across Asia.
“If you want to know the truth, please talk to the Australian embassy [in Phnom Penh] because they know the details,” Hun To told RFA in an interview.
He also denied that the Australian embassy had refused him a visa.
“If the Australian embassy had denied my visa, how would I be able to travel back and forth between Australia and Cambodia? To date, I am going in and out, and no one has stopped me,” he said.
The Age reported that Hun To had been the target of an investigation between 2002 and 2004, but said that a plan to arrest him in Melbourne was “thwarted” because “his application for a visa was denied by Australian embassy officials in Phnom Penh, with one official citing the need to avoid a diplomatic incident.”
Hun To said that if he had been involved with drug trafficking, the Cambodian government would have apprehended him.
“You think that if I am involved with drugs I would be able to stay [free] in Cambodia?” he asked.
The report comes as Bob Carr, Australia’s foreign minister, wraps up a four-day visit to Cambodia at the invitation of his counterpart Hor Namhong.
Call for investigation
Meanwhile, opposition Sam Rainsy Party spokesman Yim Sovann on Tuesday called on Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior to launch an investigation into Hun To’s activities.
“We are urging the Ministry of Interior to investigate the information made public by the Australian newspaper so that the authorities can make a clarification before the public,” Yim Sovann said.
“There must be an investigation.”
Yim Sovann said that history has shown people in power often abuse it.
“Families of rich and powerful officials often become rich through illegal businesses. I’m not accusing anyone, but those involved with human right abuses, forest destruction and drugs are mostly involved with powerful officials.”
Hun To is the son of Hun Sen’s brother Hun Neang, who currently serves as the provincial governor of Kompong Cham province.
Yim Sovann said that the authorities would create an air of suspicion if they fail to investigate the case.
‘No information’
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak said that the ministry does not have any information linking Hun To to drug trafficking.
“Australian and Cambodian officials are working closely to investigate transnational crimes, but we have not received any information from the Australian authorities about this case. If there was a case, we would have been working on it,” he said.
Khieu Sopheak added that the foreign media publication had not presented any evidence of Hun To’s involvement in the alleged crimes.
He said that the ministry would cooperate with Australian authorities to investigate the case, but that so far there had been no request to do so.
Hun To is working with his legal team to file a defamation lawsuit against The Age over its report, he said.
Reported by Samean Yun for RFA’s Khmer service. Translated by Samean Yun. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.
11 comments:
Hey Khieu Sopheak; Here is evidence: My Name family name is Hun.
Hun To asks:
“You think that if I am involved with drugs I would be able to stay [free] in Cambodia?”
Of course my boy, Hun To, your uncle is the law in Cambodia. Let’s just set your drug involvement aside. Directly and indirectly how many people have you killed so far? A lot, but you are still free.
Hun To involved within the Mafia or not that nobody know . But in a case of the mafia group want to launder their illegal money , then the country such Cambodia that is the best place for them .Personally I don' t think that Hun To had involved to this affair , because being dignity and vigilant like him , what could give him more to collude with the criminal gangs ?
So this issue it may be manipulated politically by emotion in order to harm to the credibility of CPP ,because the incoming election approach
If you want to know how bad Hun To has been, go and ask every shop owners in Kompong Cham city. They have to pay him the protection fee every month in order to stay in business.
There are two famous gansters from Kampong Cham: Hun To and Seourn Phendei. In Cambodia, who did not know Hun To?
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កើតមកជា..........ចោរ
រស់ ជា............... ចោរ
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អាខ្វាក់ហ៊ុន សែន ឈ្មោះដើមវាហ៊ុន ណាល់ ។
ឪវាឈ្មោះ ហ៊ុន នៀង ជាមេចោរលួចគោនៅស្រុកក្រូច
ឆ្មារ ខេត្តកំពង់ចាម ម៉ែវាឈ្មោះ ឌី ប៉ុក
ជាអ្នកលក់នំអាកោរ។ អាខ្វាក់ហ៊ុន សែន ឈ្មោះដើម
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hun to, denied about his drug to australia, he said if he sell drug cambodia authority will catch him....the cambodia law owner is his uncle so there is no body dare to touch him.for example men som peung neppew who shooted the factory protester and he not in a jail not even one day this is just a pieces of hun sen shit that he shit out for this men som ouy, she can protected her neppew this much how about hum family, i think no law going to do a shit to hun to no matter this monkey do or kill people or rape girld sell drug you count it all the bad things in srok khmer hun to have it all. but no shit catching him to jail or do something non. hun to some day somebody going to rape your ass till it ripe appart.
This is a very ugly bastard and useless so that no one find him very attractive. He only tried to dirty and criminal things to make huge illegal wealth and power because of his stupid uncle, a Vietnamese dog. This bastard Hun To think that money and power can buy the women and anything that do not create anything. This guy is very evil and this bastard should be crushed to death like a ugly bug on earth. How stupid and disgusted these bastards are in the corrupted and bad CPP regime.
Ah kwak Hun Xen's family and ah CPP members should not be allowed to enter any democratic countries around the world.
Fuck you, ah kwak and family, and ah CPP as a whole.
Hun To and Chet Meng name is fucking damaged. Aussies Secret police have track them on video and for yrs. They just waiting for the right time to bust his ass. Can hide the truth dude. You both are fucking doom! all your business will loose investor and no on wanted to invest in it.
His face look-likes Jeffrey Dharmer the serial killer. His tons of money Cannot lift him up as a high class person. A Low Class Family of Hun Sen thugs.
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