Court urged to suspend garment union leader

Two former board members of the country’s largest independent garment sector union asked the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday to suspend president Ath Thorn and two fellow officials over allegations of embezzlement. Oum Visal and Roeung Chanthorn, founding board members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, accuse Mr. Thorn, his deputy and his secretary general of stealing $93,000 from members after successfully negotiating a settlement with a Phnom Penh factory in 2008, a claim all three deny. …

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