Arrest of a company owner selling bad quality medicine

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Police arrested the chairman of a company dealing with low quality medicine, in the afternoon of 17 December, at the company headquarters in Tonle Bassac commune, Chamcar Mon district, Phnom Penh city. Local news media reported that Katik Sahai, a 38-year-old Indian holding Canadian citizenship and chairman of the Braya Co. Ltd., was arrested by the police after several days of investigation. The Braya Company is involved with importing medicines to Cambodia, however, in reality, the medicines imported by the company are close to the expiration dates, and the company changed the expiration date to up to 2010 by changing the medicine names and claiming that it is the company’s medicines instead. An official from the tribunal who participated in the raid on this company, said that this faking process can lead to patients’ death. In the past, patients blamed doctors for being unable to cure their illnesses, but a large number of them was caused by the use of fake medicines instead.

Arrest made against the AK-47 bandits

28-year-old Sem Sophy, the alleged ringleader of the AK-47 bandits, is being shown the media by the police (Photo: Chauk Chey, Koh Santepheap newspaper)

Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy

The ringleader of a group of 3 thieves, who used AK-47 rifles and who created havoc in Phnom Penh city for the past month, was arrested by the police. The police are still looking for the other 2 members of the group. The arrest of this thief was done in the morning of 24 September in Romduol village, Snor commune, Ang Snuol district, Kandal province, at the home of the brother-in-law of the ringleader, 28-year-old Sem Sophy. However, the other 2 thieves of the group fled. The police indicated that, based on Sem Sophy’s confession, the thieves group robbed motorcycles in Phnom Penh city 10 times already. After the robbery, they would sell the motorcycles in front of the Wat Sampov Meas pagoda. After the sale of their loot, they would party, drink, and have pleasure with women, until they depleted their income before restarting the robbery cycle again.

Arrest made against people who printed playing cards bearing Angkor Wat picture

Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Siem Reap province police arrested a number of people who are accused of printing playing cards bearing the picture of ancient Cambodian temples, including Angkor Wat. Sou Phirin, the Siem Reap provincial governor, told a foreign newspaper on Tuesday that the people who printed these playing cards were arrested and the police still continue its investigation. Last week, the ministry of culture made a request to the Siem Reap province authority to confiscate playing cards bearing the pictures of the temples of Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, Bayon, as well as other Cambodian temples. The ministry said that the production of these playing cards is illegal. Chuch Phoeung, secretary of state from the ministry of culture, said that the use of Cambodian temples on playing cards could lead card players to put them down on the ground, and people would step on them, and that this would constitute an insult on Cambodian patrimonies. It not yet known what charge the court can pin on those who were arrested.