Nine Vietnamese nationals nabbed with chainsaws in Mondulkiri

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Nine Vietnamese nationals nabbed with chainsaws in Mondulkiri



PHNOM PENH: Cambodian forestry officials detained nine Vietnamese nationals on Wednesday, after they allegedly crossed the border to illegally log a protected forest in Mondulkiri, The Phnom Penh Post reported.

Moul Phath, a project manager of WWF Cambodia, said the men were caught by police and Forestry Administration officials with two chainsaws in a protected forest in Pech Chreada district, just a few kilometres from the border.

Forestry official Long Bung said the men, aged between 30 and 40 years old, were questioned by forestry officials at the provincial headquarters and were to be sent to court on Friday.

In Heng, director of the immigration office at the Mondulkiri provincial police station, said that apart from forestry crime, the men would also likely be charged with illegally crossing the border.

In a separate case yesterday, Tbong Khmum provincial police seized 200 logs of rosewood, weighing about 1,000 kilogrammes, from a truck and detained the driver, who they say was on his way to Vietnam.

Provincial police chief Mao Pov said the rosewood was hidden under recyclables but was discovered by officials at Duong checkpoint on the Vietnamese border.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/152624

-- Thai PBS 2016-02-27

[Assurancetourix]

Only cambodian mafia is allowed to cut wood in protected forests

[Ulic]

Cambodians cut in Thailand, Vietnamese cut in Cambodia. Seems to me every country

views cross boarder wood cutting, as fair game.

[BuaBS]

The Vietnamese chainsaw massacre .

[Sheryl]

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