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Former teacher denies child sex abuse charges

An Australian teacher charged with sexually abusing six young boys claimed during the first day of his trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court Tuesday that an anti-pedophile NGO framed him. George Moussallie, 52, a former English teacher at the American Pacific School in Phnom Penh, ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-teacher-denies-child-sex-abuse-charges-77739/

Municipal court concludes trial of six Vietnamese brothel staff

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday concluded the trial of six Vietnamese nationals accused of selling 20 girls and women for sex out of two establishments in the city center. ...

Khy Sovuthy and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/municipal-court-concludes-trial-of-six-vietnamese-brothel-staff-7026

Court concludes $2.3m canadia fraud case

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday concluded the trial of two former employees of Canadia Bank and two alleged accomplices charged in October with embezzling more than $2 million from fraudulent credit card accounts. Presiding Judge Kor Vandy heard closing arguments in the case—believed to ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-concludes-2-3m-canadia-fraud-case-65063/

One China policy stymies citizenship scam

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a member of Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s cabinet who was charged with fraud for accepting $38,000 from the representative of a Taiwanese national in exchange for citizenship documents that were never delivered. Suong Veasna, a ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/one-china-policy-stymies-citizenship-scam-62210/

Printer cops $12k bill for bootlegged books

The owner of a printing house accused of infringing on the copyright of an author who contracted him was slapped with $12,500 in fines and damages by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/printer-cops-12k-bill-bootlegged-books

Trafficker gets 10 years

The manager of Giant Ocean International, a now-defunct recruitment firm notorious for abuse scandals, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in jail for trafficking hundreds of Cambodian fishermen to work in slave-like conditions overseas. Taiwanese national Lin Yu-shin, who ran the firm, was arrested in May ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficker-gets-10-years

Union boss’s murder gets day in court

One of the men suspected in the seven-year-old murder of a Phnom Penh garment factory union representative was tried at Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday, nearly two years after his conviction in absentia. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/union-boss%E2%80%99s-murder-gets-day-court

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