Khmer Times/Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
Monday, 24 October 2016
An officer in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and the bodyguard unit of Prime Minister Hun Sen was arrested in Kampong Chhnang province on Friday after nearly three years on the run for alleged “unlawful interference in the discharge of public functions,” military police said yesterday.
Captain Lon Leng, a 39-year-old RCAF officer in the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit living in Kampong Chhnang province’s Relear Phoear district, was arrested on Friday and sent to provincial prison, according to deputy military police commander Colonel Sok Sitha.
“He was arrested in accordance with the provincial court’s warrant for his arrest,” he said.
“He was charged in absentia by the provincial court’s prosecutor with unlawful interference in the discharge of public functions under article 609 of the Criminal Code.”
Col. Sitha said that according to the warrant for the suspect’s arrest, at midnight on January 2, 2014, provincial Forestry Administration officials stopped a truck on National Road 5 in Relear Phoear district’s Pongror commune and seized many cubic meters of luxury timber.
However, the truck driver managed to escape and transport the timber after Mr. Leng intervened. A complaint was later filed against him to the provincial court by the provincial Forestry Administration department, according to Col. Sitha.
Mr. Leng then fled Kampong Chhnang province and moved to Phnom Penh.
He added that Mr. Leng was arrested after returning to Kampong Chhnang province to visit his family.
Monday, 24 October 2016
An officer in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and the bodyguard unit of Prime Minister Hun Sen was arrested in Kampong Chhnang province on Friday after nearly three years on the run for alleged “unlawful interference in the discharge of public functions,” military police said yesterday.
Captain Lon Leng, a 39-year-old RCAF officer in the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit living in Kampong Chhnang province’s Relear Phoear district, was arrested on Friday and sent to provincial prison, according to deputy military police commander Colonel Sok Sitha.
“He was arrested in accordance with the provincial court’s warrant for his arrest,” he said.
“He was charged in absentia by the provincial court’s prosecutor with unlawful interference in the discharge of public functions under article 609 of the Criminal Code.”
Col. Sitha said that according to the warrant for the suspect’s arrest, at midnight on January 2, 2014, provincial Forestry Administration officials stopped a truck on National Road 5 in Relear Phoear district’s Pongror commune and seized many cubic meters of luxury timber.
However, the truck driver managed to escape and transport the timber after Mr. Leng intervened. A complaint was later filed against him to the provincial court by the provincial Forestry Administration department, according to Col. Sitha.
Mr. Leng then fled Kampong Chhnang province and moved to Phnom Penh.
He added that Mr. Leng was arrested after returning to Kampong Chhnang province to visit his family.
