Investigation Wraps In Journo Death
For the second time, an investigating judge at Ratanakirri Provincial Court has closed the investigation into the murder of Virakchun Khmer newspaper journalist Hang Serei Oudom. … Odom was found dead in the trunk of his car. The murder happened only days after an article about illegal logging under Oudom’s byline appeared in the newspaper and implicated the son of a local businessman, King Seanglay, the son of a military police cheif. … It later emerged that Seanglay had been in a traffic scrape with Oudom on the road to Phnom Penh. But along with almost a dozen other suspects, he was released and the court charged An Bunheng, 37 and his wife, Sim Vy, 35, with premeditated murder. …
