A 35-year-old Phnom Penh man allegedly set up a fake checkpoint in Dangkao district pretending to be an official, stopping vegetable trucks to extort money, municipal military police said.
The financial firm, run by Ke Suonsophy and Sar Channet, the daughter and niece of two deputy prime ministers, suspended operations in April, blaming three ex-board members of cheating the company out of $20 million.
A prison officer in Kandal province has been provisionally detained — in the same prison where he works — over allegedly taking a bribe to speed up the release of a prisoner.
The director of a closed Korean-language training center denied the fraud and trafficking charges against him in court on Thursday, saying his school only taught dozens of workers who paid him $80,000 in total, and he had not acted as a migrant labor recruiter — but he was willing to return their money.
An Appeal Court hearing for three jailed Mother Nature activists on Tuesday had heated exchanges between the defendants and prosecution, as the environmentalists defended their activism.
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