Claims by Global Witness rejected

10 February 2015
The Phnom Penh Post
Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Land / Logging and timber / Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Global Witness (GW) / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / Ouk Rabun / Try Pheap / Try Pheap Group

Minister of Agriculture Ouk Rabun yesterday dismissed allegations of large-scale illegal timber smuggling by the Try Pheap Group published in a report by UK-based corruption monitor Global Witness last week. Global Witness’s report, The Cost of Luxury, identified Pheap, a prominent tycoon and former adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, as the head of an elaborate timber smuggling network that illegally felled and collected trees before shipping them to China to fuel the demand for ornate hongmu furniture. ...

 Pech Sotheary
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