Forestry Administration Official Behind Arrests at Biofuel Firm
A court official said yesterday that the complaint that led to the imprisonment of a British man and two Cambodian staff at a troubled biofuel firm was filed last year by a senior Forestry Administration official. … Gregg Fryett, 45, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit in Phnom Penh on Saturday and charged by the Banteay Meanchey provincial court with forging a land ownership document. … The complaint accuses IGE and another company, Aphiwatch Meanchey, of illegally clearing State forestland in Svay Check, where the companies begun developing a jatropha plantation. Aphiwath Meanchey is owned by Mao Maly, the wife of former Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Ke Kim Yan. …
