Phnom Penh (FN), Dec. 19 – The Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered to detained brigadier general Sum Socheat, deputy police commissioner of Kampong Chhnang Province, and lieutenant colonel Keo Narun, director of the Intervention Office of the Kampong Chhnang Provincial Police, regarding the illegal grabbing of flooded forests in three areas, Kampong Leng district, Kampong Chhnang province, according to the court’s orders seen by Fresh News on Sunday.

On 17 December 2021, Royal Government of Cambodia seized back more than 40,000 hectares of flooded forest lands in six provinces along the Tonle Sap Lake after three weeks of field inspection by authorities.
=FRESH NEWS