Court rules in tycoon’s favour
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. Sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate Nim Meng, deputy commander of the prime minister’s bodyguard unit and a personal assistant to Hun Sen, $5,000. … Meng’s defence lawyer, Bun Kong, said his client sued after Neang Gek made accusations in the Koh Santepheap newspaper that the tycoon grabbed 10 hectares of her Sihanoukville property in 2011. …
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-rules-tycoon%E2%80%99s-favour
