Fake dollars stopped: cops
Three men arrested over a plan to smuggle millions of dollars worth of counterfeit US banknotes into Cambodia with the help of Thai criminals used the name of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s chief bodyguard to secure the deal, a provincial court heard yesterday. Pin Tipelo, 38, a bodyguard to four-star General Hing Bunheang, who is in charge of the premier’s personal security, Hean Bunkem, 30, and Ung Penktry, 50, were charged with fraud in the Kandal Provincial Court for their role in the money-smuggling plot. ... Police have narrowed their search to the Thai nationals – businessmen, according to the police officer – who were allegedly supplying the notes. ...
