Cambodian Military cop in logging probe

Military police on Saturday launched an investigation into one of their own, raiding the Kampong Speu province home of a deputy district gendarmerie chief accused of trafficking timber, whose whereabouts yesterday remained unknown.

According to provincial governor Vei Samnang, officers from the national and provincial gendarmes were led to the home of Oral district deputy gendarmerie chief lieutenant colonel Chheng Long after arresting and questioning the driver of a truck carrying luxury wood seized nearby in Chbar Mon City’s Kandorl Dom commune on Saturday afternoon.

The driver, Yoem Sophearum, 32, was detained and his truck confiscated, while gendarmes were dispatched to Long’s house, which they surrounded by 8pm together with Forestry Administration officers, Samnang said.

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