Uranium smugglers face justice
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 7:44 am
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Another Only in Cambodia. This time they surpass themselves.taabarang wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 7:44 am Another "you just can't make this up"
http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/phn ... um-vietnam#
Ministry of Interior official Hy Pru, who headed the operation against the four suspects, declined to elaborate on why the substance was suspected to be uranium.
“The substance has been transferred to the Ministry of Defence for testing, so please contact them,” he said.
An official at the National Authority for Chemical Weapons, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, also said the substance has not been tested.
“We don’t have the equipment to test it. We requested to get it tested at the [Cambodian Mine Action Center], but CMAC also doesn’t have the equipment,” he said.
I would not be at all suspicious that I was being roped into something illegal if someone offered me $330,000 to sell 2 litres of a liquid as stated in the article. I wonder if they glow in the dark yet?CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:49 am The Khmer Times version:
Men tried over dangerous liquid
10 January
- Four men were tried by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for allegedly selling two litres of a liquid used to produce chemical and nuclear weapons for $3.3 million in Phnom Penh in 2016.
Presiding judge Seng Leang identified the accused as 44-year-old Vietnamese national Chea You, 32-year-old Cambodian Dy Vibol and two Khmer Krom, 58-year-old Chan Thoeun and 44-year-old Tith Reaksmey.
He said they were all charged with producing and transporting liquid used to produce chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, arms and radiation.
The judge added that they were arrested on August 30, 2016, by the Interior Ministry’s anti-drug police in Kakab commune in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district.
“They were arrested after they tried to sell the liquid – used to make chemical and nuclear weapons and radiation – for $3.3 million to undercover police,” he said.
Police seized two bottles of the liquid from them after their arrests, the judge added.
At yesterday’s trial, the four men confessed to selling the liquid to undercover police but claimed they didn’t know what it was used for...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101010/me ... us-liquid/
To the blokes outside FCC. Only place to get a buyer in PP..............