Chan Sreynuch, the owner of Micasa Cosmetics Shop, at an event in Phnom
Penh in June. She was arrested yesterday. Photograph: Seth
Kimsoeurn/Phnom Penh Post
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Friday, 21 September 2012
By Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
Phnom Penh Post
Chan Sreynuch, the owner of Mikasa Coiffure and Beauty, a well-known
salon in the capital, spent last night at national military police
headquarters, accused of moonlighting as a high-end madam.
Her arrest yesterday followed a month-long military police stake-out.
Sreynuch, 38, known affectionately as Mom, was arrested in the
Sre Leap Hotel, in Daun Penh district, around 6:30pm, on suspicion of
human trafficking, according to the national military police spokesman
Kheng Tito.
“Chan Sreynuch is an active leader of human trafficking in Cambodia,” Tito said.
According
to him, Sreynuch would lead young women — often aspiring singers and
students — to her salon, then connect them with wealthy businessmen.
Three
of her manicured and coiffed callgirls were also detained at the hotel,
along with her bodyguard, Kong Chandoung, who was later released.
Sreynuch,
who is yet to be charged, was being held at the national military
police headquarters following questioning at the Phnom Penh Municipal
Court, Tito said.
The other women were sent to Phnom Penh Municipal Hall’s rehabilitation centre for “re-education”.
Sea
Sambath, deputy commander of the national military police, said his
forces had followed and observed Sreynuch’s activities for a month.
“According
to our military police’s investigation, Chan Sreynuch was a human
trafficker and also a broker who [solicited] singers or other girls who
were her customers,” Sambath said.
“They would come to have their
make-up done at the Mikasa shop before having sex with people in hotels
or guesthouses in Cambodia,” he said.
Sreynuch, her defence lawyer, and the court could not be reached for comments.
To contact the reporter on this story: Buth Reaksmey Kongkea at reaksmeykongkea.buth@phnompenhpost.com
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