Rosewood Seized From Hotel Truck
Forestry Administration officials have confiscated 15 cubic meters of luxury-grade wood from a truck belonging to hotel and casino magnate Try Pheap in Kompong Thom province. Soth Mary, a division director for the Forestry Administration in the province, said yesterday that his staff stopped a truck belonging to the Try Pheap Import Export Company in Santuk district and confiscated all the wood above and beyond the 25 cubic meters it was licensed to transport. … Mr. Mary said the timber had been harvested from an economic land concession belonging to Mr. Pheap in Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district and that the confiscated wood had been sent to the Forestry Administration’s local cantonment office. …
