A Leaked Report Shows Staggering Illegal Logging Profits by Try

SORN THE ONLY ASIAN DRAWINGS DEAF TEENS THINGF WE CAN SPUR RETHINK OF OFF TO HK FOR BRAG ABOUT: PM ARt’s origins RUGBY TOURNEY NATIONAL – PAGE 2 WORLD – PAGE 18 SPORT – PAGE 26 R 2025 E MB U N SSUE I FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 Successful People Read The Post 4000 RIEL A truck hauls allegedly illegally logged timber up a river bank after it was of loaded from a transport boat in Stung Treng’s Siem Pang district last month. HENG CHIVOAN The calculus of logging A leaked report shows staggering illegal logging profits by Try Pheap’s company Daniel Pye and May Titthara tycoons, Try Pheap, allegedly made international conservation group, a were never released publicly due to the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary as Stung Treng and Pursat provinces more than $220 million in unreported leaked copy of which was obtained by gravity of the allegations, Pheap’s MDS cover to move protected rosewood profit by illegally logging rosewood over the Post. The report provides the first Import Export Company, owned by his felled outside those areas. N WHAT may be the largest docu- a three-year period in the Cardamom substantial documentation of large- wife, Mao Mom, used permits for clear- The report concludes that Pheap mented case of timber laundering Mountains, official figures suggest. scale illegal logging by the Try Pheap ing timber within the Stung Atay transported more than 16,000 cubic in recent Cambodian history, one The evidence was included in an Group of Companies. hydropower dam reservoir and three Iof the country’s most powerful unpublished 2012 report by a major According to the findings, which concessions in the 330,000-hectare CONTINUED – PAGE 6 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 10, 2014 National Drug arrests Buddhist institute rewind As PM ‘brags’, up, seizures Meas Sokchea on decline SEEKING to allay fears that the government is allowing casino scammers try Buth Reaksmey Kongkea operator NagaCorp to overrun the Buddhist Institute, Minis- THE number of drug arrests, ter of Cults and Religion Min including those of foreign Khin yesterday claimed that to strike gold nationals, is up this year, but any structures that have been total drug seizures are barely built by the casino operator Taing Vida dia released a statement warn- over a third of what they were last on institute land would now ing that multiple Facebook ac- year, say the National Police. be removed. RIME Minister Hun counts have been created by From January to September After nearly three hours of Sen yesterday sang the scam artists purporting to be 2014, police made 564 drug raids questioning by the National praises of Cambodia’s Seavmey asking for donations leading to the arrest of 1,345 peo- Assembly’s Commission on first gold medallist for nonexistent charities. ple, including 44 foreigners and Religion, Khin claimed that inP 44 years – suggesting Sorn The accounts contain phone almost 200 women, said Lieuten- construction had been put to Seavmey’s achievement was numbers donors can use to ant Chhay Kim Kheun, National a halt. “For the Buddhist In- the “only thing Cambodia can set up appointments and con- Police chief of staff. Over the stitute, we are not renting [the brag about” – as the Kingdom’s tribute to the fake funds, said Heavy machinery operates on a construction site next to the Buddhist same period in 2013, police made land], or selling it, or [allowing] Institute in Phnom Penh in June. CHARLOTTE PERT Olympic Committee warned Vath Chamroeun, the Olym- 1,200 drug arrests, which includ- any development,” he told re- of bogus Facebook accounts in pic Committee’s secretary. ed 32 foreigners. porters after the closed-door But last month, the Post re- According to a recording of her name soliciting money. “Based on current observa- Drug confiscations fell over the questioning. “And as for re- vealed that the company had yesterday’s questioning, Khin After Seavmey, 19, took first in tion, there have been Face- same period, from more than 94 moving [construction], we are told investors of plans to build told lawmakers that NagaCorp taekwondo at the Asian Games book accounts established kilograms to slightly under 34 organising the procedure to another hotel directly on the had not paid any money to use in South Korea on October 3, identifying them as belonging kilograms this year, according to dismantle soon." institute’s site. the institute’s land while con- Hun Sen yesterday commend- to Seavmey for money solicit- General Khieu Saman, director “Now I would like to tell all of According to Yem Ponharith, structing developments in the ed her achievement at a gradu- ing purposes,” Chamroeun of the anti-drug police unit. you that we are stopping [this an opposition lawmaker and immediate vicinity. ation ceremony for Cambodia In the past nine months, police construction] right away,” Khin head of the commission on “There is no rent. [Naga] has University of Specialties at Koh This is the only netted 15.7 kilograms of meth- also said. religion, the substation would borrowed [our land]. There is Pich yesterday. thing Cambodia amphetamine powder, 10.9 kilo- The construction site at- now also be relocated. [just] a borrowing agreement “It’s no small achievement can brag about grams of marijuana, 7.5 kilograms tracted protesters after parts He said that the institute for them to keep construction to win a gold medal against 45 of cocaine, almost 0.3 kilograms of the institute’s walls were would hopefully be refurbished materials, motorbikes and cars countries,” said the Prime Min- said. “We are monitoring those of heroin and over 3,000 kilo- demolished earlier this year instead, to restore its past glory. [on institute land],” he said. ister, who is granting the athlete thieves, and we have already grams of safrole oil, used in the to make way for the nearby “We will go and look with This response earned a re- $30,000, a motorbike, an iPad, a prepared lawyers for legal coun- production of ecstasy. casino. In May, the govern- our own eyes and request [the buke from Ponharith, who computer, an automatic pass for seling for victims’ complaints.” Lieutenant Kheun said that ment said that it had only al- government] to help the Min- questioned why a highly prof- the grade 12 exam and $1,500 Seavmey said the Sorn police have “worked hard” to lowed NagaCorp to build an istry of Cults and Religion to itable casino company was not per year in congratulations. Seavmey Foundation – which combat and reduce drug traf- electrical substation on the be given enough budget … to paying for use of the land. “For those who could not . donates to the Cambodian Red ficking, drug production and institute’s land to power a help the institute grow,” Pon- NagaWorld declined to com- praise this achievement, please Cross, Kantha Bopha children’s drug use in Cambodia. new hotel across the road. harith said. ment before press time. stay silent,” Hun Sen said, re- hospitals and others – is the ferring to people criticising only charitable organisation in the gifts. “This is the only thing her name. Cambodia can brag about.” “I have not used Facebook for The comments came on the several days now and have not same day that the National created a page for fundraising,” Olympic Committee of Cambo- Seavmey said. Sorn Seavmey celebrates after winning gold during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. AFP 4 THE PHNOM PENH POST OCTOBER 10, 2014 National Long wait over Fraud case Two B Kak World Bank deflects claims protesters judge says Laignee Barron no to bail to get land S 10 cities around the WO protesters from the world stage protests Kim Sarom Boeung Kak lake commu- denouncing the World Tnity are weeks away from Bank’s agriculture CAMBODIAN-AMERICAN busi- long-awaited land titles after City Ainvestments today, the organisa- nessman San Richer – who is Hall officials yesterday measured tion has responded to accusa- accused of helping defraud an plots for them amid a small crowd tions that its policies have helped investor out of $1 million – won’t of angry former residents. fuel land grabs in Cambodia. be released on bail, Phnom Penh Nget Khun, a well-known land- The UN-associated financier Municipal Court judge In Vanvi- rights activist in her seventies is under fire for findings, includ- bol announced yesterday. who has been imprisoned and ing by its own internal inspec- Richer is one of four suspects beaten numerous times while tors, that its $35 billion worth of – including Sichan Siv, a former fighting for a land title, said she investments in developing coun- United States envoy to the UN was pleased authorities were tries have done little to alleviate – who allegedly solicited a $1 recognising her right to live at the poverty, and instead may help million investment in a rice site. However, she has no inten- undermine the livelihoods of export start-up from local busi- tions of returning to a quiet life. rural communities. nesswoman Eng Lykong, only “I won’t stop protesting “The World Bank Group shares to disappear after accepting until City Hall resolves the land concerns over large-scale land the money. disputes for all the families in acquisitions anywhere and Sichan and fellow suspects Boeung Kak,” she said. believes securing access to land Thomas Willems and William About 20 people who accepted for poor people around the globe Villagers walk through a cleared forest inside a HAGL rubber plantation in Ratanakkiri last year. HAGL’s Nojay are believed to have left $8,500 to relocate years ago and is critical for development,” the operations in Ratanakkiri have been suspended due to a pending World Bank investigation.

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