The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has sentenced two underage phone-snatchers to a year and a half in prison after a failed attempt outside Boeng Keng Kang high school.
Immigration police investigated the alleged confinement of 20 Japanese nationals at a Sihanoukville hotel but found no problems, the Interior Ministry said.
Officials at the Ratanakiri provincial planning department have filed corruption complaints accusing their director of embezzling money to buy houses and land, the latest in a recent spate of anti-graft cases.
Stung Treng city authorities are investigating a couple who allegedly scammed tens of thousands of dollars from around 100 families by claiming to be relatives of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife Bun Rany and his adviser Seng Tieng.
Immigration officials treated foreign businesses softly as “investors” even when they blocked labor inspections — before a series of raids confirmed hundreds of human trafficking cases across the country, the Interior Ministry said.
The Anti-Corruption Unit has asked a Kampong Speu district official to return land he sold to a buyer by opening a small dam to let out the water and then sell the drained land surrounding the reservoir.
Ten Kampong Speu police officers have been temporarily suspended after one officer took an improper fine and got the offender to send it to their personal bank account.
A woman was found dead in a bathroom at Phnom Penh’s notorious NagaWorld casino on Monday night, as police investigate the apparent murder.
Two minors aged 14 and 15 were put on trial Tuesday morning for theft with violence after attempting to snatch a phone from a motorbike rider — a crime that happens three to four times a week in Phnom Penh, according to the capital’s police.
Phnom Penh residents in Kakab I commune say plainclothes police officers are camping to make drug arrests, but have been seen planting drugs on unsuspecting people or extorting seemingly innocent arrestees for money to get their possessions.
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