Probe under way on military logging case
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has launched an investigation into an October 2010 incident in which three RCAF soldiers allegedly opened fire on Forestry Administration officials who had just confiscated a haul of illegal wood, one of the officials involved said yesterday. An RCAF official, meanwhile, said the military had launched its own investigation into the incident. Thorng Sokhay, chief of the Forestry Administration’s Srenoy triage in Siem Reap province, said ACU officials had questioned him about his original complaint to the local court yesterday morning but declined to discuss the proceedings… Mr Sokhay claims that he and two colleagues had just confiscated a truck filled with illegally logged, luxury-grade wood and were driving it back to their office when the soldiers fired at his car and the truck…
