Big logging cartel alleged

1 April 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environment and natural resources policy and administration / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Exports / Forest cover / Forest policy and administration / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Land / Logging and timber / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries / Protected forest / Public land lease / Social land concessions / Trade
Chhim Savuth / Chu Pah Rubber Development Project / CRCK II Kampong Thom / Hun Choch / Hun Neng / Hun Sen / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries / Natural Resource Protection Group / Prey Lang Forest / Seng Kok Kheang / Thon Sarath / Try Pheap

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s brother Hun Neng and a Vietnamese state-owned rubber firm are involved in an illegal logging cartel involving several well-connected companies operating on a “massive scale” in the embattled Prey Lang forest, forest monitors working in the area allege. Video footage and photographs advocacy groups say were shot over the past two weeks show trucks bearing the logo of tycoon Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co Ltd transporting timber to sawmills in Kampong Thom’s Chu Pah Rubber Development Project and a social land concession allegedly overseen by Hun Neng. The Chu Pah project is run by CRCK II Kampong Thom, which is a subsidiary of the Vietnamese government’s state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group. …

 May Titthara and Daniel Pye
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