Guilty verdict for timber cop

7 February 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Anti-corruption / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Judiciary and courts / Land / Logging and timber
ACU / Anti-Corruption Unit / Forestry Administration / illegal luxury timber / Krakor district / Poung Puthearith / Pursat / Pursat Provincial Court / rosewood

Pursat Provincial Court yesterday sentenced a military official, Poung Puthearith, to two years in jail – suspended to six months – on charges of threatening and obstructing the works of a forestry official, a court official said. … Puthearith was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit in November for his involvement with an illegal luxury timber racket in Pursat’s Krakor district. His arrest came after he threatened Forestry Administration officials who tried to stop him from transporting four carloads of illegally felled rosewood in June 2012. …

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