Rosewood gambit fails
A disguised shipment of nearly eight cubic metres of illegal rosewood worth an estimated $50,000 was snagged yesterday in a Forestry Administration dragnet in Siem Reap province after agents in Banteay Meanchey alerted authorities the shipment was headed their way, Forestry officials said. Siem Reap Provincial Forestry Administration chief Tea Kimsoth said that the joint team of provincial prosecutors and local authorities who discovered the truck – which was carrying 7.61 metres of the endangered “luxury” wood hidden under a shipment of bags of cement – suspected that it was headed for Kampong Cham province, on the Vietnamese border. …
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