Hun Sen’s Sister, Canadia Bank, Senator’s Family Receive State-Land Plots

A tranche of government documents released this week shows hundreds of hectares of state-land plots privatized for connected individuals and companies across the country. Twelve volumes of the royal gazette were published on Wednesday, a compilation of government orders and decisions dating from the end of last year. Around 100 volumes are released every year, with a delay of a few months between the decisions and publication.

The latest batch of documents contain at least eight state-land privatization orders. The largest plot is compensation for Koh Kong residents in dispute with the controversial Union Development Group, a massive, 36,000-hectare coastal Chinese-owned project accused of forced evictions. Some 1,154 hectares of Botum Sakor National Park was reclassified in order to be handed to an unspecified number of residents.

Around 600 hectares of other state-owned areas — lakes, forests, mountains, a port and a former economic concession — were also privatized around the country. Hun Seng Ny, a sister of Prime Minister Hun Sen, and oknha Lanh Pheara received 20 hectares of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake.

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