One China policy stymies citizenship scam

24 June 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Anti-corruption / Government / Government services / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Interior
Kor Vandy / Ministry of Interior / National Police / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Royal Cabinet / Sar Kheng / Taiwan

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a member of Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s cabinet who was charged with fraud for accepting $38,000 from the representative of a Taiwanese national in exchange for citizenship documents that were never delivered. Suong Veasna, a colonel in the National Police, told the court that he had agreed in 2011 to make Hu Yen, who holds both Taiwanese and Canadian citizenship, a Cambodian citizen, as he had done numerous times with Chinese businessmen, but unexpectedly ran into problems when he sent the paperwork to be processed. …

 Eang Mengleng
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