Courts charge Stung Treng men for transporting illegal timber
Stung Treng provincial police on Sunday sent one of seven men detained over the transportation of illegal timber to court.
Provincial police chief Mao Dara said the Vietnamese man was sent to the provincial court after being accused of transporting nearly 200 pieces of beng timber (Afzelia xylocarpa) and 50 bags of strychnine grains hidden within a bus.
“We handed over the timber, vehicles and the grain as evidence to the Forestry Administration. We sent the Vietnamese driver of the bus to court because he committed the crime and confessed to having hidden the timber,” Dara said.
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