Cambodia Breaking News (Phnom Penh): Deputy Chief of Police of the Ministry of Internal Security in cooperation with the Cambodia Post Office officials, led by Deputy Prosecutor Real Sophal, cracked down on a postal drug delivery which arrived on August 7, 2019.

Parcels containing 98 kg of animal feed were hiding a shipment of MDMA sent from Germany to the Phnom Penh Central Post Office. On 10 August, it was reported that a Chinese man, 33-year-old YAO ZEYE, has been arrested and is being questioned by police.

UPDATE: Appeal rejected

Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): On the morning of 3 October 2022, the Court of Appeal in Phnom Penh announced its verdict concerning a Chinese man who was sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with the transportation, storage and trafficking of drugs. He was arrested along Street 102 by Wat Phnom, Daun Penh, Phnom Penh in 2018.

Mr. Sin Visal, the presiding judge of the Trial Chamber, stated that the accused was YAO ZEYE, a 33-year-old Chinese man who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in 2019 for illegal transportation, storage and trafficking of drugs in contravention of Article 40 of the Law on Control Drugs. During the arrest, the police confiscated: Logo LV, Ecstasy (MDMA) drugs weighing a total of 98.04355kg.
In a hearing this morning, the defendent appealed the life sentence, but it has now been upheld by the Phnom Penh court judge.

truffledog wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 12:21 am That wasnt a one-man show for sure.

These cases all take the same form. There are a few poor scruffy locals or foreigners caught red handed and they are sent away forever. I haven't seen any successful appeals.

These reports never allude to other collaborators, or the lifestyles of these major drug dealers, or their homes and cars or anything to support the authority's over simplistic case of possession equalling distribution and it being entirely autonomous and self contained.

There is never any mention of long-term surveillance and how they caught other parties in the conspiracy due to the comings and goings of others. If there was any, they would have others in the frame., but they never do. They police seem to just turn up and somehow they hit the jackpot.

The police can do some stupid things, but even they are not that stupid. They are all in on it, and they are corrupt from the top to the bottom and the media just trot out the identical story every time, with just the names, quantities altered.

Do these stories even constitute "News" in the normal meaning of the word? These people are just fall guys, set up to give the police a photo op and pretend they are actively enforcing drugs laws. It's pathetic.