Publish By Thomas Whittle
Updated 28/01/2013
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 27 — Kampong Cham Provincial Court on Sunday
charged six suspects in a local Acleda Bank robbery with aggravating
circumstances (violence), which could face up to 10 years in prison, a
court’s deputy prosecutor Riel Sophin said.
The suspects including five bank staff and an outsider were arrested
on Wednesday night in a robbery at Acleda Bank’s branch in Stung Trang
district of eastern Kampong Cham province after 16- hour operations.
During the robbery, the alleged robbers had fabricated the hostage
situation by arranging some of them to act as drug- addicted kidnappers
armed with a pistol and some as hostages.
“After 3-day inquiries on the suspects, Investigating Judge Oum
Chanthul decided to charge them with aggravating violence and issued a
detention verdict this Sunday afternoon,” Riel Sophin said by telephone
on Sunday.
He said one of the suspects ex-bank cashier Sin Kimthat, who
masterminded the robbery plot, was additionally charged with organizing
an armed group.
The hearing date for the case is unknown yet.
In Channy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Acleda Bank,
which is the kingdom’s largest bank, said Sunday that the bank lost
55,000 U.S. dollars in the robbery.
“We sue them to repay the lost money,” he said.
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