R’kiri cop to answer for illegal rosewood

A district deputy police chief in Ratanakkiri province is to be summonsed to court for questioning after a police raid on his house Friday turned up more than 10 cubic metres of illegal luxury wood.

Provincial anti-economic crime police, who carried out the raid, found three varieties of protected rosewood – chheu thnoung, beng and neang nuon – at the home of Captain Lak Vannarith, Andong Meas’s deputy police chief, Colonel Nov Dara, chief of the anti-economic crime unit, said. …

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
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