Cop nabbed in timber bust

5 November 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Agriculture and fishing / Anti-corruption / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Land / Logging and timber
ACU / Anti-Corruption Unit / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Cop / Forestry Administration / Kheng Tito / Krakor / Krakor district / logging / Ou Virak / Phnom Aural Wildlife San / Poung Puthearith / Pursat / rosewood / Samreth Law Group / Sciaroni & Associates / timber / Tonle Sap

The Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested a military police officer accused of involvement in an illegal luxury timber racket in Pursat province's Krakor district - an area where government investigators conceded that complicity by the powerful was rife. On Saturday, the anti-graft agency arrested military police officer Poung Puthearith, who is accused of threatening Forest Administration officials who tried to prevent him transporting four carloads of illegally felled rosewood in June. ...

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