Official in court over fraud case

17 June 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
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Adhoc

A high-level agricultural official in Kampong Speu province has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from paddy rice farmers after promising to deliver them land titles in January 2013, a rights group representative and a court prosecutor said yesterday. Cher Pich, 44, deputy director of the provincial agriculture department, was arrested earlier this month and charged yesterday with “fraud and breach of trust”, according to Roth Thavy, provincial investigator for rights group Adhoc. …

 Khouth Sophak Chakrya
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