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Nat'l Assembly Passes Money Laundering R 3437 E MB U N SSUE I FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 Intelligent . In-depth . Independent www.phnompenhpost.com 4000 RIEL Gov’t refutes CHINA MAY ALLOW NEW CHARGES IN RIGHTS REPRESSION MORE IMPORTS OF FLOYD KILLING AS CLAIM AMID COVID KINGdom’s mANGOES PROTESTS RAGE ON NATIONAL – page 5 BUSINESS – page 6 WORLD – pAGE 11 US trade Nat’l Assembly passes sanctions on HK ‘defy’ money laundering law WTO rules Niem Chheng dering and financing terrorism. the law on anti-money laundering lematic, but it is problematic with WASHINGTON’S decision to strip In a press release, the NA said the and terrorism financing before Sep- foreigners and makes it impossible Hong Kong of its special trading sta- HE National Assembly (NA) on draft law consists of nine chapters tember, while the law on combating to move forward,” he said. tus violates World Trade Organisa- Thursday approved the draft and 47 articles. Another bill on com- proliferation financing should have He said last year, the police launched tion rules, China said on Thursday. law on anti-money laundering bating proliferation financing had been passed last month. investigations into 71 cases of money US President Donald Trump and terrorism financing. eight chapters and 24 articles. They Deputy National Police chief and laundering involving drugs, econom- announced last Friday that the US TThe move comes a year after Cambo- were approved by the Council of the Ministry of Interior’s central ic fraud offences and others. will revoke special trading privileges dia was placed on the Financial Action Ministers last month. security department director Dy Vi- Thirteen of the 71 cases were granted to Hong Kong after Beijing Task Force (FATF) “grey list” and nearly Government spokesperson Phay chea told The Post on Thursday this sent to court and six people were moved to tighten its grip on the a month after the EU requested its par- Siphan said last month that the FATF will help fix loopholes in Cambodia’s charged. The police are continuing semi-autonomous city with plans liament to add Cambodia and 11 other decision required Cambodia to im- money-laundering laws. to investigate the remaining cases. to impose a national security law. countries into a list of states that “pose prove the legal frameworks around “We have so far had loopholes In the first five months of the year, Removing the special status significant threats” to its financial sys- combating money-laundering. such as collaboration with foreign- would affect a bilateral extradition tems for failures to tackle money laun- Cambodia, therefore, has to amend ers. Domestically, it is not very prob- CONTINUED – page 4 treaty, commercial relations and export controls between the US and the Asian financial hub. The move adds to growing fric- tion between the world’s two big- gest economies amid the corona- virus crisis and in the wake of a two-year trade war that has not been fully resolved. China’s commerce ministry spokesman Gao Feng said the spe- cial trading status given to the former British colony was recog- nised by all WTO members and did not depend solely on the US. “If the US disregards the funda- mental principles of international relations and adopts unilateral measures according to its domes- tic laws, it will violate WTO rules and will not be in the interest of the US,” Gao said at a regular press briefing. A spokesman of China’s bank- ing regulator said separately that Hong Kong’s status as a financial hub will not be shaken by the potential sanctions. “Hong Kong’s financial market is running smoothly, and there is no abnormal capital outflow,” said the spokesman, adding that this reflected the international mar- ket’s confidence in the city. Beijing has said the planned national security law is needed to tackle “terrorism” and “separatism” and criminalises acts of subversion, secession, terrorism and foreign interference in Hong Kong. Gao said the national security law will not undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy. Destroyed Trump has provided few details Officials destroy counterfeit products in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district on Thursday. The Ministry of Interior’s Counter Counterfeit Committee destroyed on a timetable for scrapping Hong over 130 tonnes of unapproved products and fake medicines during the first five months of this year. HONG MENEA STORY > 2 Kong’s special trading status. AFP one month’s free VIP subscrIPTION Feeling the burn: Don’t miss our Cambodia keels on Special Report Inside page 8-9 FOR THE FIRST 1,000 PHNOM PENH POST slow-to-act attitude READERS WHO REGISTER! 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 5, 2020 WWW.phnompenhpost.COM National Man released on bail in $6M bank theft case Kim Sarom “Therefore, I release the ac- cused and overturn the Ap- HE Supreme Court on peal Court’s decision,” the Wednesday released judge said. on bail a Ministry of Defence lawyer Thuy Sokun Civil Service official said outside the courtroom that Twho allegdely colluded with the Supreme Court’s order to his wife in stealing $6 million release his client was justified. from a Canadia bank branch “The court’s decision is a in January. fair one for my client who can The order allows the ac- take care of his children. The cused – Chan Simuntha – to elderly parents cannot take be released on bail after his care of their grandchildren lawyers had argued that he and said that if the court does had already paid the money not release my client, they back. will take their grandchildren Judge Yu Yuthara read the to an orphanage,” he said. verdict before the accused According to Sokun, Simun- and his two lawyers, saying tha was told by his wife on he was overturning the Ap- January 18 to go to Canadia peal Court decision, which Bank and pick up three black had upheld the verdict of the packages. Phnom Penh Municipal Court He went and put the pack- to keep Simuntha in custody ages in his car and drove pending trial. home. When he arrived Kep provincial officials are planning to improve 1,800m of shoreline and develop two islands which are less than 10km from the coast. HONG MENEA The judge said the decision home he parked the car was based on the record in without taking the packages the case. out, Sokun said. Simuntha’s defence lawyers Unbeknownst to Simun- Kep tourism to receive facelift as two and a lawyer for the bank told tha, the package contained the judge that the accused $6 million in customers’ had already returned the $6 money. His wife then texted islands are pegged for development million to the bank. a message to the General De- The Supreme Court also partment of Taxation to ask found that the signature on about the amount of money Thou Vireak the nearly 3,000m Kep Beach improvements to another developed so far, said Sokha. the receipt was only signed required to pay the tax. to turn it into a public beach 1,800m of the beach from Kep At a meeting to prepare the by Teang Vathanaknearyroth, The tax department con- THE government is studying to attract more tourists. beach to the Vietnamese coast. Kep provincial Tourism Devel- an employee of Canadia Bank tacted Canadia Bank because the development of the beach Upgrades will be developed “Kep province has great poten- opment Master Plan in May, and Simuntha’s wife, without they did not see the tax mon- in Kep province, in southwest- from the Crab Market to the man- tial for tourism. If we do not Ministry of Economy and the signature of the accused. ey and the bank investigated ern Cambodia, to assess its grove community area in Prey develop it, how can we attract Finance undersecretary of The judge said at the trial, and discovered that the wife tourism potential. Thom commune, in Kep town. tourists?” Sokha asked. state Ni Phally said the master the accused said he had two took the money. Kep province is a coastal area “We have already designed In addition to the coastal plan would make Kep province young children to take care of, Sokun said his client re- located more than 175km from the beach and are studying the area, Kep province has 13 an attractive destination for but after his imprisonment, turned the full amount to Phnom Penh and the govern- socio-environmental impacts archipelagos that are attractive local and global tourism. they had no caretakers and his the bank. The wife took the ment believes it has tourism on the communities living natural tourist sites. Two of the “The draft will be completed children were sent to live with money originally to transfer potential thanks to its beaches, along the coast,” he said. islands have been granted by by the end of July and will be their grandparents. to Khmer currency to gain national parks, mangrove for- Kep province now has only one the government to a private submitted at the Inter-Minis- Vathanaknearyroth is al- some profit without any in- ests, corals and seagrass. official beach with a length of development company – Koh terial Commission meeting in ready serving prison time. Re- tention of stealing the bank’s Kep provincial Department 350m, and it is yet to meet the Tonsay Island (also known as August,” he said. ferring to this reason, the Su- money,” he said. of Land Management, Urban needs of tourists. He said the Rabbit Island) and Por Island. A Ministry of Tourism report preme Court understood that Planning and Construction beach is too narrow and needs to Koh Tonsay Island is a beauti- said Kep province welcomed it was not necessary to detain www.phnompenhpost.com director Vao Sokha told The be upgraded, including road ful island that is only 4.5km from about two million international Simuntha for “conspiracy in a CHECK THE POST WEBSITE Post on Thursday that his team construction.
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