Court Upholds Anti-Corruption Unit Verdict

The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a verdict sentencing the former Pursat Provincial Court prosecutor, Tob Chan Sereivuth, and two of his bodyguards to between 15 and 19 years in prison for bribery, illegal detention and extortion. Mr. Chan Sereivuth and bodyguards Ros Samnang and Chhit Vuthy were sentenced to 19, 15 and 16 years respectively in May by the Pursat Provincial Court, in the first case brought by the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). …