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More than 10,000 families have voluntarily handed over to the state 56,000ha of flooded forest land in the Region 3 protected area of the six provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap Lake, while more than 90,000 trees and saplings have already been planted there, according to the Fisheries Administration.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on December 19 charged two senior police officials on several criminal counts for their involvement in the destruction of the Tonle Sap Lake’s flooded forests in Kampong Chhnang province’s Kampong Leng district.
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) arrested Kampong Chhnang Deputy Provincial Police Chief Sum Socheat and Colonel Keo Narun, director of the provincial intervention police, for the occupation and illegal sale of state flooded forest land.
Cambodia's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has arrested two senior police officers for allegedly encroaching on protected flooded forest land in Tonle Sap, the kingdom's largest freshwater lake.