Former councilor arrested for alleged fraud

30 June 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil and commercial litigation / Government / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Ministry of Interior / Provincial and local governments
Chea Sothon / In Bora / Long Dimanche / Ministry of Interior / Penal Police Department

Interior Ministry police arrested a former Phnom Penh deputy governor and municipal councilor on Thursday for questioning over allegations of land fraud, but released him the next day, police said Sunday. Chea Sothon, who served as a councilor from 2009 until earlier this year and was deputy municipal governor until 2009, is accused of selling a parcel of land in Kandal province that he did not actually own, according to In Bora, chief of the Interior Ministry’s penal police department. Mr. Bora said the alleged land sale occurred in 2011 or 2012. …

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