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