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Friday 15 June 2012

Busted [Chea Sim] aide dies in prison


Gen. Chan Kosal (L) and Gen. Ponlork Ho (R) who was arrested along with Gen. Chan Kosal and other Chea Sim's advisors.


Friday, 15 June 2012

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea 
Phnom Penh Post

Convicted former police official and ex-Chea Sim adviser Chan Kosal had died of lung cancer in his cell at Prey Sar prison on Wednesday, a police official said yesterday.

Chan Kosal, 62, a former lieutenant-general, was convicted of serious fraud last December after a court found he had served as middleman in a land concession deal between his boss, Senate president Chea Sim, and a Malaysian businessman, accepting a sizeable commission in the process.

“He had lung cancer and other epidemic diseases,” Sun Lean, chief of the Ministry of Interior’s Prey Sar Correctional Centre, said. “He died from lung cancer after he had a lung operation last month at the Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh.”

Sun Lean said Chan Kosal’s condition had worsened quickly after the operation.


Chan Kosal was arrested last September along with four other members of Chea Sim’s cabinet in a conspiratorial scandal that left the senate president – who was re-elected in March – relatively unscathed.

Their arrests were based on a complaint by Chea Sim himself, with approval from Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Tep Mony Cheath, Chan Kosal’s former defence lawyer, expressed regret at the death of his client, saying that although Chan Kosal had been accused of serious fraud, he was a generous person who had contributed a substantial amount of his own money to development projects, poverty reduction and services for the poor.

In 2011, Chan Kosal gave more than $200,000 of his own money to build roads in Svay Rieng province, he said, adding that he also persuaded many foreign investors to participate in Cambodian anti-poverty projects.

Members of Chan Kosal’s family could not be reached for comment.

To contact the reporter on this story: Buth Reaksmey Kongkea at reaksmeykongkea.buth@phnompenhpost.com

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a bullshit liar news, I think these guy were on their way to live abroad...in foreign country somewhere.

Anonymous said...

10% of the money went to the poverty reduction while 50% went to limousine vehicles, villa, mistresses, and other entertainment and some 30% gratitude payment to Chea sim himself.
But he ended up in Prey Sar. The bus stopped at his house but not his boss.

Anonymous said...

Chea Sim sacrificed his little pawns.

Anonymous said...

It is not fair! Chea Sim should be charge and put in jail too,instead, Chea Sim was re-elected to be a leader of senate committee!!! Whats a joke!!!!

With amount of the money that these two corruptors has Prey Sar's jail is his play ground or vacation home,jail in Cambodia is not for the thieves,not for the Cpp corruptors,not for Cpp killers,jail in Cambodia is for khmer's innocent and poor Khmers.


Why?????

Anonymous said...

Put two guy in spot light...Chea Sim re-elected, seal the deal...