Gen. Chan Kosal (L) and Gen. Ponlork Ho (R) who was arrested along with Gen. Chan Kosal and other Chea Sim's advisors.
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:
This is a bullshit liar news, I think these guy were on their way to live abroad...in foreign country somewhere.
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.
Chea Sim sacrificed his little pawns.
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?????
Put two guy in spot light...Chea Sim re-elected, seal the deal...
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