Four Charged in Infantry General’s Drug Case
A high-ranking army official, his driver and two others were charged with drug trafficking yesterday following a series of arrests over the weekend and a raid that yielded nearly 5kg of methamphetamine. Questioning of the four by prosecutors at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court finished yesterday and the case was passed on to the investigating judge, said Ork Limchanrina, a clerk for deputy prosecutor Ky Bonnara. … On Friday Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Major General Chan Rithidy and his driver, Lieb Chunry, were arrested in a raid on Maj. Gen. Rithidy’s Phnom Penh villa. During the raid, police netted 3.7 kg of methamphetamine and 1 kg of crystallized amophetamine, known as ice. Two days later, Dieb Sunlay and his wife, Nhem Sokha, were arrested in Sen Sok district’s Kakab commune. All four are believed to have been involved in trafficking drugs across the border from Laos. During the questioning, each of the confessed to the charges. …
