Three Taiwanese men sentenced to life in prison for trafficking more than 2 tons of drugs in Cambodia

 


Buth Reakmsey Kongkea        

Phnom Penh Municipal Court on March 31, 2022 sentenced three Taiwanese men to a life sentence in prison each for possessing and trafficking more than two tons of drugs committed last year in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district.

 Court’s Presiding Judge Im Vannak identified the three foreign accused as Yan Shou, 58; Ly Po Han, 31; and Ye Yong, 48. 

They all are Taiwanese nationals and worked with a Taiwanese-owned-company named “Sin Yin Feng Cambodia Industry Co., Ltd” located in the border of Kampong Speu and  Preah Sihanouk Provinces, in Sangke Satop commune’s Dambang Veng village, in Oral district.


“Based on the hearing and the real evidence [ drugs] that police had seized from them on the day of their arrests, the Judges’ council of the Phnom Penh Municipal has found them guilty as accused,” Judge Vannak read the verdict on Thursday.

“The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has decided to sentence them to a life sentence in prison each. The court orders them to pay 80 million Riels [about $ 20,000] each to put in the state’s budget as a fine,” he said.

“The accused have the right to appeal the ruling of Phnom Penh Municipal Court to the Appeal Court within the period of a month [30 days] if they did not accept it,” he added.  


Judge Vannak said that they were charged with “drug production, possession, transport and trafficking” under Articles 38, 40, 47 and 48, and with “Money Laundry” under Article 38 of Cambodian Law on Anti-Money Laundering and Financing. 

He emphasized that they were arrested on December 12, 2021 by police in the anti-drug department in the Ministry of Interior in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district.

He said that after their arrest, police inspected their company’s warehouse located in Oral district’s Sangke Satop commune. 


He added that police seized a total of 2, 237 kilograms [more 2 tons] of Ketamine and other 84 tons of chemical ingredients as well as other related drug producing materials from their warehouse.

The three Taiwanese accused men could not be reached for comments on Thursday.

 











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