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Dara Rath Sokun, 27, was arrested on April 15 after he cut off the police barricade tape used to cordon off a street to block people from travelling through amid the lockdown. Police
Man gets one year in prison for violating lockdown measure
Sun, 18 April 2021
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on April 18 sentenced a man to one year in prison for cutting off a barricade tape in a lockdown area in Phsar Depot II commune of Phnom Penh s Toul Kork district last week. This marks the first case that a Covid-19 measure violator has been tried.
Dara Rath Sokun, 27, was arrested on April 15 after he cut off the police barricade tape used to cordon off a street to block people from travelling through amid the lockdown.
Kampot Police Official Arrested for Drug Possession
09 April 2021
VOA Khmer
FILE - Confiscated drugs burned during a ceremony to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 26, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
A Kampot deputy police chief and two other suspects have been arrested and sent to court for allegedly trafficking two kilograms of methamphetamine.
Im Chhun, Kampot’s deputy police chief, and two accomplices – Keo Tith Mesa, a police officer, and a civilian named Hong Kea - were the targets of a police raid on April 6 in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, according to a National Police official. Officers confiscated 1.7 kilograms of methamphetamine during the raid.
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Kampot deputy police chief, associates arrested over possession of 2kg drugs
Thu, 8 April 2021
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on April 8 questioned a Kampot provincial deputy police chief and two other associates for possession of nearly 2kg of drugs after Ministry of Interior anti-drug police arrested them on April 6 in Srah Chak commune of the capital’s Daun Penh district.
Deputy National Police chief Mak Chito, who is also deputy secretary-general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, told The Post on April 8 that the three suspects had been sent to court in connection with nearly 2kg of methamphetamine (ice).
Chito identified the trio as Im Chhuon, 51, Kampot provincial deputy police chief in charge of fire and explosives; Keo Tith Mesa, 21; and Hong Kea, 61. Both men are Chhuon’s associates
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A man and a woman was charged with “inciting social unrest” under articles 494 and 495 of the Criminal Code after they allegedly posted fake news about the Covid-19 vaccination on Facebook. Police
Two charged with spreading inciting information on Covid
Mon, 1 March 2021
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has charged a man and a woman with “inciting social unrest” under articles 494 and 495 of the Criminal Code after they allegedly posted fake news about the Covid-19 vaccination on Facebook.
Municipal police spokesman San Sok Seiha told The Post on March 1 that the two Cambodians – Thun Chantha, 44, and Mey Sophorn, 43 – were arrested on February 26 and 27.
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Three suspects arrested for drug trafficking in the capital and Banteay Meanchey province earlier this month. Police
Three men sent to court for trafficking 2kg drugs
Sun, 10 January 2021
Officers of the National Police’s anti-drug department sent three male suspects to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on January 10 after a series of arrests at three different locations.
They are accused of being involved with the transportation and storage of more than 2kg of various illegal drugs including ecstasy, methamphetamines, ketamine, among others.
The National Police’s anti-drug department director Lek Vannak, said the three suspects and the drugs seized as evidence was sent to the municipal court on January 10.