Drug connection denied

27 March 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Aid and development / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members
Australian aid / Australian Crim Commission / Australian Embassy / heroin trafficking / Hun Sen / Hun To / Khieu Sopheak / Melbourne / Minister of Interior / Operation Illipango / Prime Minister Hun Sen

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans to file a lawsuit against The Age in both Cambodia and Australia. “I will meet [Minster of Interior] Khieu Sopheak to file a complaint to the Ministry of Interior, and then I will file another complaint to the Australian Embassy,” Hun To said. “I will also hire a foreign lawyer in Australia to work on this case and demand the newspaper show evidence of my involvement in those crimes.” The Age yesterday reported that the Australian Crime Commission targeted Hun To in a 2002-2004 inquiry dubbed Operation Illipango that investigated heroin shipped from Cambodia into Australia…

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