CNRP commune candidate arrested on dredging charge

[geovalin]

Mech Dara

 

The Siem Reap Provincial Court on Friday placed a local Cambodia National Rescue Party official in pre-trial detention for sand mining without a licence in Angkor Chum district’s Tasom commune.

 

Provincial court spokesman Yin Sreang said Thon Thoeuth, a deputy on the CNRP commune executive committee and a candidate for the upcoming commune elections, was placed in pre-trial detention on Friday.

 

“We don’t know about his political affairs,” Sreang said. “The court implemented the court procedure and detained him in regard to sand dredging.”

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-commune-candidate-arrested-dredging-charge