Hun Sen’s sister tied to company in Boeng Kak land sale
A development firm owned by CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin and accused of illegally evicting thousands of families from central Phnom Penh recently sold a small piece of its project area for $14.9 million to a company with ties to one of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s sisters. Rights groups say the sale violates the terms of a 99-year lease Mr. Meng Khin’s Shukaku Inc. signed with the government in 2007. Families in the area are considering filing a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit. Shukaku paid $79 million for its lease to 133 hectares of prime real estate in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood and subsequently evicted some 3,000 families in violation of the country’s Land Law. With the backing of a Chinese investor, it broke ground on an ambitious real estate project in mid-2011, but quickly stopped and has left the area fallow since. …
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