Pair of Congolese admit to money laundering

Two Congolese accused men went on trial yesterday accused of forging passports and other documents to launder money through false bank accounts. Emmanuel Ngoma Ngoma Coco, 48, and Junior Bin Mungomba, 36, confessed to opening accounts with four banks in Cambodia to receive laundered money from overseas.
 

Major General Thou Saroeun, deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s anti-terrorism and international crime department, said: “They were arrested after they crossed the border using fake documents and passports.” He said Mr. Mungomba was arrested after he used forged French and Belgian passports and fake documents to open two bank accounts at the Sathapana Bank in 7 Makara district’s Borey Keila commune in Phnom Penh on June 15.
 

After his arrest, police confiscated three fake passports and other related fake documents. Based on Mr. Mungomba’s confession, police arrested Mr. Coco and Mesiya Tedike Junior on the same day in Tuol Kork district. Mr. Junior was later released because he had no connection to the case.

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