Ponzi scheme suspects’ cases sent to court: ACU
Three alleged members of a money-laundering operation worth more than $11 million who were arrested earlier this year in Phnom Penh have had their cases sent to court and are now awaiting trial, Om Yentieng, head of the Anti-Corruption Unit, said yesterday. The three suspects – two Cambodian-Americans and a British citizen – were arrested in January and March by anti-corruption police in the capital. Greg Thomas Fryett, 46, from the UK, was arrested in March after ACU officers linked him to a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a deal to buy land from the former Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Ke Kim Yan. … The firm is alleged to have transacted deals with British clients worth more than $11 million and including about 800,000 hectares of land. …
Vong Sokheng
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