The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 519
“A site of drug production was raided, the chief drug producer is arrested, a machine for producing drugs and nearly $100,000 worth of counterfeit dollars were seized by National Military Police officials led by Brigadier General Sea Sambath, deputy chief of the General Staff and chief of the Office of Information and Security.
“National Military Police officials arrested the chief drug producer at 4:40 a.m. on 1 August 2007 opposite Holiday Amusement Club, along Street 65 in Srah Chak Subdistrict, Daun Penh District, Phnom Penh.
“This person’s name is announced by National Military Police officials as Lam Sokheng, aged 31, his address is House 308 at the junction of Street 265 and Street 150 in Tuek L’ak Pir Subdistrict, Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh; he is the chief drug producer and a trafficker.
“A military police officer said that due to the strict and firm order by Mr. Sao Sokha, the commander of the National Military Police, the Office of Information and Security of the National Military Police, led by Mr. Sea Sambath, the deputy chief of the General Staff and the chief of the Office of Information and Security, had investigated the group [of drug producers] for more than six months and had defined that the group is a large scale drug production and trafficking group, which led to a raid to arrest the chief drug producer and to seize many pieces of evidence.
“After the arrest of the chief drug producer, the Royal National Military Police experts searched two sites in Tuol Kork and Dangkao districts.
“The evidence seized by the officials is a black Escalade car with the temporary license plate number 9687, a modern short gun, serial number 3195, with nine cartridges, a cartridge container, two telephones, 870 amphetamine pills, 47 ecstasy pills, two small bags of ketamine, one big bag of tetamine, five pacts of crystalline methamphetamine of 2,496 grams, twelve drug-neutralizing pills, US$47, and Riel 1,024,000 [approx. US$250]. All pieces of evidence were seized from the culprit’s car.
“The National Military Police official continued that after collecting the evidence and the answers from the culprit, the officials continued to cooperate with prosecutor and the local authority of Trapeang Andoung Village, Trapeang Krasang Subdistrict, Dangkao, by confiscating a modern pills producing machine from the Yatai Instruments company, 339 kg of white powder equal to 339 bags, 200 grams of fine powder as well as a large number of substances for producing drugs. In the culprit’s house, #308 on the junction of Street 265 and Street 150 in Tuek L’ak Pir Subdistrict, Tuol Kork, officials seized $95,600 of counterfeit dollars, and three cartridges for a short gun.
“According to the culprit’s answers, he and his group had conducted drug trafficking since 2005. As for the machine for producing pills, it had just been imported about a month ago.
“The anti-drug authority officials said that the machine for producing drugs, which has been seized, is a modern automatic machine that can produce nearly 10,000 pills per hour. Such kind of machine has never been seized by officials before.” Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1408, 3.8.2007
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Friday, 3 August 2007
Areyathor, Vol.14, #1258, 3-4.8.2007
- How About Pong Peay Lake, Salang Lake, Tumpun Lake, Kak Lake, Chhouk Lake, and Bayab Lake? [there should be actions against filling of the lakes like the action against filling of Kobsrov Lake]
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1408, 3.8.2007
- Raid on Site of Drug Production in Central Phnom Penh: Machine and More Than $90,000 Counterfeit Dollars Seized
- National Assembly Summons Representative of Ministry of Interior for Questioning about Disappearance of Mr. Tim Sakhan
- Gifts from Samdech Ta [the Grandfather King] and Samdech Yeay [the former Queen] Carried to 43 Fire Victim Families in Tuek Thla Subdistrict [Russey Keo, Phnom Penh]
- Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen Receives German [Stuttgart City] Mayor [Wolfgang Schuster]
- 160 People Die in Floods in Bangladesh
Khmer Amatak, Vol.8, #502, 3.8.2007
- Samdech Krom Preah Explains to People Not to Be Deceived by Kem Sokha [President of Human Rights Party] Who Is a Tool of the Cambodian People’s Party
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.14, #3227, 3.8.2007
- Mr. Yim Sovann [SRP parliamentarian, from Phnom Penh] Asks Ministry of Interior to Invite Preah Sangh Reach [Patriarch] Tep Vong to Explain Disappearance of Monk Tim Sakhan [who has recently been defrocked on accusation of perpetrating an offense against the Buddhist law, because he distroyed the harmony between Vietnam and Cambodia]
- Leader of Cambodian Government Should Learn from His Friend of “Ten Thousand Years” about Actions against Corruption [in Vietnam]
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4353, 3.8.2007
- Cambodia Plans to Create Embassy in South Africa in 2008
Samleng Yuvachun Khmer, Vol.14, #30103, 3.8.2007
- Samdech Krom Preah [Norodom Ranariddh] Rejected Yuon’s [Vietnam’s] Request for Him to Be Chief of the Movement to Lead Yuon Troops to Invade Cambodia in 1979 [according to Radio Free Asia]
- Yuon [Vietnam] Denies to Have Been Involved in Khmer Rouge Regime
- Former Monk Tim Sakhan Is Detained in Yuon [Vietnam] and Faces Trial to Be Imprisoned
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