Army major held over timber racket

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A military officer and well-known timber salesman was arrested on Wednesday for illegally transporting and selling luxury wood.  He was identified as 37-year-old Major Choeun Theng, an officer with the 3rd Military Region in Kampong Speu province. He was arrested in Takhmao town in Kandal province.
 

National Military Police spokesman Brigadier General Heng Y said Maj. Theng was a high-profile timber seller in Kampong Speu, Kampot and Pursat provinces. Police had been hunting him since officers from the National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention raided his warehouses in Kampong Speu province in January and seized several hundred tons of illegal luxury timber.  
 

“He was a military officer but also well-known in the luxury timber business. He usually transported timber from Cambodia to sell in Vietnam,” the police spokesman said.  

 

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