‘Croc grandma’ gets four years

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted local tycoon Chhin Sokountheary of encroaching on public lands and sentenced her in absentia to four years and six months in prison. … Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Ly Lipmeng said yesterday that Sokountheary, who is also known as Yeay Kraper, or “crocodile grandmother,” was convicted as director of Layimex Holding Group with clearing more than 33 hectares of state land and filling in more than 300 square metres of the Pong Peay Lake in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district in August.

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