BREAKING NEWS
Sought Belgian drug smuggler caught
6 October 2018
Anti-Drug Police arrested Eddie J. Taller Tanguy, a Belgian national, at Bavet International Checkpoint in Svay Rieng Province on Thursday (Oct.4); he seemed to be trying to flee to Vietnam.

An arrest warrant for Mr Tanguy was issued by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court after he was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment and a fine of $20,000 for drug trafficking.

He was charged in the aftermath of a drug mule’s failure to clear customs at Phnom Penh International Airport in January.

The mule, 34 year-old Belgian national David Noel Catry, was trying to smuggle over a kilo of cocaine from Brazil to Cambodia. The dope was hidden in his luggage

He confessed to being offered $30,000 by a Brazilian named Tang Guise for the job. He was charged and convicted – he got life imprisonment and $20,000 in fines.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/540084/sou ... er-caught/

Is it a coincidence that the "Brazilian" mastermind is called Tang Guise which sounds a lot like Tanguy ? The link between David Catry and Tanguy Taller is still unclear.

The owner of Hangar 44 reached out to CEO to say this:

"Hi, I’d like to reach out to you regarding some false information on one of your posts. It’s referring to the Belgian man who was recently arrested for trafficking of cocaine. There’s a post from you guys or someone commenting that he worked at Hangar 44 in PP. I am the operator and co-owner of Hangar 44. And he has never ever been employed anywhere in the Bassac Lane nor Hangar 44. And I would like to make that clear..."

December 6, 2018
Belgian retried for drug trafficking
Phnom Penh Muniipal Court yesterday retried a Belgian man who was sentenced to life in prison in absentia in June for trafficking more than one kilogram of cocaine from Brazil to Cambodia through Phnom Penh International Airport in January.

Presiding Judge Chhoem Rithy identified him as Tanguy J. Taller, 36, a tourist convicted of drug trafficking together with accomplice David Catry Noel, 37, also a Belgian tourist.

Judge Rithy said that Mr Taller, who was not present during the trial on June 22, and Mr Noel were each sentenced to life in prison.

He said that Mr Taller was later arrested on October 4, 2018, at the Cambodian-Vietnamese-International Checkpoint in Svay Rieng province after he crossed the border into Bavet city.

He said that Mr Taller was sent to the municipal court for questioning on October 5 and the investigation judge sent him to prison the next day to serve the life sentence handed to him in absentia.

Judge Rithy said that after he was sent to prison, Mr Tanguy denied trafficking drugs and wrote to the court requesting a retrial.

During yesterday’s trial, Mr Taller again denied the charges against him.

He confessed that he knew Mr Noel, but he did not know about his trafficking of drugs or his personal businesses.

“The reason why I have requested the judges to conduct a retrial is because I did not agree with my sentence,” he told the court. “I did not commit any wrongdoing as alleged.”

“I met Mr David Catry Noel when he visited Brazil in June but I did not hire him to carry drugs for me as he has accused,” he said. “I do not know anything about this case. Please drop the charge and release me.”

Mr Noel testified yesterday that drugs seized from him on January 10 in Phnom Penh belonged to Mr Taller.

Mr Noel told the court that Mr Taller hired him for $3,000 to bring the drugs to an unidentified Nigerian man living in Cambodia, where he was then arrested with them at Phnom Penh International Airport.

“Mr Taller promised to pay me $3,000 for the fee of transporting the drug seized from Brazil to Cambodia,” he said. “He arranged and paid all expenses, including flights and food, transportation and accommodation.”
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50556472/b ... afficking/