Interactive: Few arrests in timber smuggling crackdown

Suspected timber smugglers have gotten off the hook in the vast majority of busts that have followed Prime Minister Hun Sen’s January call for a crackdown on the illegal timber trade, a Post analysis has revealed. In the wake of the prime minister’s creation of a task force aimed at curbing illicit timber exports to Vietnam, the past 10 months have seen a surge in raids of vehicles, warehouses and other stockpiles. …

Daniel Nass
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