Heng Chheang, former treasurer of Anco Brothers, leaves the Supreme Court yesterday. Photo by Heng ChivoanButh Reaksmey Kongkea
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Phnom Penh Post
No mistake was made when former Anco Brothers executive Heng Chheang and his wife, Tep Kolap, were arrested last year, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
Pin Vannak, a defence lawyer for the couple, had argued they had been arrested illegally because the Phnom Penh municipal court had not summonsed them before issuing warrants.
Heng Chheang and Tep Kolap, former rector of Phnom Penh International University, were jailed last month for a breach of trust over the disappearance of more than $58 million from the bank accounts of Anco Brothers, a company owned by Sok Im, the wife of senator Kok An.
Supreme Court judge Khim Pon said the Phnom Penh municipal court had done nothing wrong by arresting the couple on June 18.
“The Supreme Court understands there was not any mistake made in the [court’s] arresting procedure for Heng Chheang and Tep Kolap,” he said.
The couple also appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn a decision by the Appeal Court not to release them while they appealed.
“The suspects have already been convicted by the lower courts, and their case is still in court. Therefore, the Supreme Court refuses their bid for bail,” Khim Pon said.
The Appeal Court upheld the couple’s sentences last month and ordered them to repay Kok An, the chairman of Anco Brothers, more than US$58 million.
They have appealed that verdict to the Supreme Court.
To contact the reporter on this story: Buth Reaksmey Kongkea at buthreaksmey.kongkea@phnompenhpost.com
8 comments:
Wow!...Wow!...Whats a story...
58 millions dollars evaporated to the thin air without knowing who took it...This is the case of incompetence mismanagement and GREEDS.
I hope the court find the truth about a case in this magnitude,58mil gone without a trace!...Hopely,court system find and prosecute the right individaul, not the scapegoat one.
Young Khmer U.S.A
Hundred of Millions$$ has gone...without any trace?? This guy said...I know nothing??????He paid a big big$$$ to get this jobs...position??
Govt must strip down all of his belonged...Villas, Luxury car, plots of lands he owned...etc...
I bet those missing hundred millions of dollars sitting in foreign bank abroad under his family's name....
Maybe the owner Mr:Sok Im probably took it drposit at Swiz bank and blame these innocene couples.The case of scam/GREEDS/ scapegoat,who took 58millions without anyone knows....investigating the owner Mr SOK IM...do not blame scapegoat..
We all don't really know whats up these people..? They may used the blamed games against each other, but the money sitting in swiss bank ready to splitting up...who know behind the back-door..??
The money$$ goes to his brand new TOYOTA PRADO, LEXUS LX 570, RANG ROVER SPORT, BMW, and mistress diamond jewler....
Dude! 58millions is in Yuon's bank now,the f@#&%king corrupted supreme court is "INCOMPETENCE" you can't count on this freakong's court.
Let's slow down now,diging deeper to the root cause of the problems ok!...The owner is name SOK I'M.and SOK I'M the wife of ah Yuon name
KOK AN,he work as senator in Cpp clans. Ah,KOk AN is Yuon origin,look at his f#&@%king name folks...!ah,kok an,he is chairman of the anco company that lost 58milions to the thin air..The bank needs to be checked is #1 Swiss bank,#2 check Yuon's bank.
The money in these banks folks! Stop accuse innocent khmers,dont believe this corrupted court paid off by ah kok an=Yuon.These couples cant hide all these money they are scapecaote of Ah;kok AN.
c.s.i ....young khmer profesional.
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