Official from Cambodia's Kampong Thom gets seven years' in corruption case


He Koeun, former head of the Economic and Community Development Office of Stung Sen town in Kampong Thom province, has been sentenced to seven years for forest crimes. - Photo: Facebook

PHNOM PENH: The Kampong Thom Provincial Court has sentenced He Koeun, former head of the Economic and Community Development Office of Stung Sen town, to seven years in prison for his involvement in the destruction of a section of the flooded forests around the Tonle Sap Lake.

His accomplice Sae Song Heng, a farmer, received a six year sentence for the same offending.

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