Land Case Involving Minister’s Wife Is Heard
The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of a land dispute between a 70-year old woman from Kompong Chhang province and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000 square meter parcel of land. In May 2012, the Kompong Chhang provincial court ordered Chat Batt, a farmer in Kompong Tralach district’s Ta Ches commune, to pay $2,500 in compensation to KCD, a development firm owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Suy Sem. Ms. Batt said in court yesterday that she possessed the legal right to stay on the land, as she had been living there for more than 30 years. …
