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Moek Dara being led away by police (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post).By SOPHENG CHEANG,
Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court sentenced a former Cambodian drug czar to life in prison Thursday for committing the very crime he was hired to fight.
The Banteay Meanchey provincial court handed Moek Dara a life sentence for taking bribes and masterminding drug trafficking, prosecutor Phan Vanrath said.
Moek Dara was secretary-general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs when he was arrested in January 2011, causing a media sensation.
Before taking up his post as drug czar, Moek Dara was a senior member of Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party and served in the Ministry of Interior for several years.
On Thursday, the court also sentenced Moek Dara's aide Chea Leng to life in prison on the same charges. Former anti-drug officer Morn Deurn, who is in hiding, was sentenced in absentia to 25 years.
The court, located about 190 miles (300 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Phnom Penh, fined the trio nearly a half million dollars — the amount the court said they took in bribes.
Cambodia has ramped up its war on drugs the past few years, resulting in hundreds of arrests, some involving high-profile officials.
Cambodia is not a major producer of illegal drugs but has increasingly become a smuggling transit route for narcotics, particularly methamphetamine and heroin, since neighboring Thailand started a crackdown on drugs in 2003.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court sentenced a former Cambodian drug czar to life in prison Thursday for committing the very crime he was hired to fight.
The Banteay Meanchey provincial court handed Moek Dara a life sentence for taking bribes and masterminding drug trafficking, prosecutor Phan Vanrath said.
Moek Dara was secretary-general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs when he was arrested in January 2011, causing a media sensation.
Before taking up his post as drug czar, Moek Dara was a senior member of Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party and served in the Ministry of Interior for several years.
On Thursday, the court also sentenced Moek Dara's aide Chea Leng to life in prison on the same charges. Former anti-drug officer Morn Deurn, who is in hiding, was sentenced in absentia to 25 years.
The court, located about 190 miles (300 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Phnom Penh, fined the trio nearly a half million dollars — the amount the court said they took in bribes.
Cambodia has ramped up its war on drugs the past few years, resulting in hundreds of arrests, some involving high-profile officials.
Cambodia is not a major producer of illegal drugs but has increasingly become a smuggling transit route for narcotics, particularly methamphetamine and heroin, since neighboring Thailand started a crackdown on drugs in 2003.
7 comments:
Ponti scheme Maddox in New York city got 150 years behind bar for stole millions dollars from people...Cambodia need to teach these crooks people a big lesson and sending a messages to other not to dare again...
Life in prison for this punk is a good lesson for other outhere...
Peal si peal, hun sen eats chea sim.
It's kinda hard to judge this guy of his crimes due to the kangaroo court in Cambodia.
HunSi--w/youn!
Only small % of crooks that get caught dealing drug prosecute in srok Khmer,because they don't have HunSi behind'em..!!!
HunSi-w/yuon..!
corruption is killing Khmer society,its cancer must be stopped,regardless of who's he/she related too,don't let these thugs gets way anymore!..murderer,must be prosecuted to the fullest of the law,no one is above the law...even if the s o called Oknha....
It's time to clean up all thugs whose broke the law,otherwise,history will repeats itself all over again.Srok Khmer can not be another Year Zero...Yuan&Siam stole Khmer's land while Khmer fought eschew other like dog&cat!...Is this thugs that run the Country learns anything from the past ???? wake up Ah Ott pooch....
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