Alleged mistress files complaints against Sokha, Adhoc

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Lay Samean and Shaun Turton

Days after being grilled behind closed doors by a prosecutor, opposition leader Kem Sokha’s purported mistress has turned on the advocates defending her, filing a suit against the CNRP acting president and accusing an opposition commune chief of giving her hush money, an accusation which led to the local official’s arrest yesterday.

For more than a month, Khom Chandaraty, a hairdresser also known by her nickname Srey Mom, had strenuously denied that it was her allegedly talking with Sokha in a series of covertly recorded phone conversations leaked on social media in March.

That changed last Tuesday when, under questioning, Chandaraty admitted she was Sokha’s “lover” to Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor Sieng Sok, who publicised her about-face in the wake of the interview.

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