Russey Keo governor summonsed to court
The governor of Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district has been summonsed to court for questioning on allegations that he and his wife cheated a former secretary of state at the Ministry of Rural Development out of $730,000 through a fraudulent sale of state land and loans that were never paid back. District Governor Khlaing Huot, 43, and his wife, Uong Sophalla, 41, have been summonsed to appear at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on May 21 after Lon Phon, now with the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, filed a lawsuit against them. According to the court’s two separate summonses, issued by deputy prosecutor Hean Sopheak on April 29, Huot has been accused of being an accomplice to fraud, while his wife, who acted as the land broker, is accused of fraud. The allegations rest on claims that in 2006 the couple sold Phon’s family a 1-hectare piece of land in Russey Keo’s Phnom Penh Thmey commune that they purportedly owned – for $300,000 – but the land was later seized by the government as state land. …
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
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