Tycoon Takes to Hospital as Wife Returns to Prison
Lying in a hospital bed at Phnom Penh’s Naga Clinic yesterday well-known tycoon Khaou Chuly said that he may appeal to the prime minister to intervene in an attempted murder conviction against his wife that was upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday. Mr. Chuly, 83, has maintained his wife’s innocence throughout the two years that the case has been in court, and said yesterday that the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the guilty verdict against her had shaken him so badly that he had to be hospitalized. He also said that he believed his son-in-law, Vice President of the Council for the Development of Cambodia Sun Chanthol, would “calm down,” but if not, he would call on Prime Minister Hun Sen to bring justice to himself and his imprisoned wife. …
