A Change of Guard

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Friday 12 February 2010

Jørgen K. Hansen Enjoys Prison Life in Cambodia

Jørgen K. Hansen has been behind these walls since November 2009. And he will still be there for some time. (Photos Niels C. Jensen)

Suspected for having sex with children and organizing the same for his friends, former Danish businessman and third-world supporter Jørgen K. Hansen is still waiting for his trial to begin. While waiting his friends come to visit and brings him food every day. But he does not want to talk to journalists.

12.02.2010
Niels C. Jensen
ScandAsia.com


The Danish businessman and third-world supporter Jørgen K. Hansen is still imprisoned in Cambodia at the Banteay Meanchey Provinsual Prison close to Poipet suspected for having sex with minors and being involved in procuring. But he his not left all alone:

“Everyday his friends come to visit him and everyday a Cambodian woman, one of his friends brings him food,” says the one of the prison guards Sang Rattaná.

Wednesday the 10th February I meet Jørgen K. Hansen in the courtyard at the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Prison where he still waiting for the trial to begin, but for now no one seems to know when Jørgen K. Hansen will be in front of a judge.

Among good friends

I meet Jørgen K. Hansen seated in the middle of group of a Cambodian people and woman is giving him a back massage. When we try to talk to him he just refuses by saying: "Go – go away” and “Fuck off” several times and finally he calls a guard, who shows us the way out of the prison.

Just outside the prison we get in contact with a Cambodian woman who claims that she and her family have been very good friends of Jørgen K. Hansen for several years. She also tells that she everyday brings food to him in the prison. Which the prison guard Sang Rattaná confirms.

The Cambodian woman also tells that she and her family have been in Denmark to visit Jørgen K. Hansen and that they in some periods have lived in the same house in Cambodia.

Her husband is interpreter for Jørgen K. Hansen. The husband confirms that but he denies being a close friend of Jørgen K. Hansen and refuses to talk about the lawsuit.

With money you can

Sang Rattaná, one of the prison guards explains that all the prisoners have to work every day in the prison. But he also tells that Jørgen K. Hansen never works and that he sleeps in a bed while the other inmates sleep at a madras on the floor.

Sources from the police tell that they think Jørgen K. Hansen may be able to pay his way out of his problems in Cambodia: “If he has enough money and a good layer maybe he could just walk out from here as a free man when the trial finish.”

Background story

Jørgen K. Hansen was in November 2009 caught by the Cambodian police together with a 13-year old girl in a room at Ngy Heng Hotel in border town Poipet.

He had also three other girls waiting in three different rooms at the same hotel, according to the police they were waiting for some friends of the Danish businessman.

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