Smuggled rosewood seized from soldiers
Forestry Administration officials yesterday said they confiscated 1.34 cubic meters of smuggled rosewood from RCAF soldiers even after a lieutenant colonel held a pistol to one of their heads in the hope of scaring them off. Tea Kimsoth, head of the administration’s Siem Reap cantonment, said his officers on Monday set up a series of checkpoints in Banteay Srei district after being tipped off that a convoy of RCAF trucks would be passing through with the contraband lumber…
