Monday, 31 August 2009

Police shooting at each other over corrupt money

Source: Koh Santepheap Daily
Reported in English by Khmerization

Police Inspector of Phnom Penh's Sen Sok District and his deputy have shot at each other in a dispute over bribery money they received for helping people to settle disputes.

According to Koh Santepheap, Police Inspector of Sen Sok District, Mr. Mok Hong, received $1000 in bribery from a person whom he helped to settle the disputes. Mr. Mok Hong gave only $50 to Mr. Cheav Vibol who is his deputy. Mr. Cheav Vibol was upset that Mr. Mok Hong didn't share a reasonable amount of the bribery money with him so he went to see Mok Hong in a carpark at 8 pm on the night on 26th August.

After a short talk, the discussion culminated into heated exchanges and Inspector Mok Hong allegedly pulled out a loaded AK-47 from his car intending to shoot, but Deputy Inspector Cheav Vibol's bodyguard named Makara pulled out his revolver and fired 5 shots into the air by also calling to his boss to duck for cover and demanded that Mok Hong drop his gun.

Inspector Mok Hong then got into his car and drove off. Deputy Inspector Cheav Vibol and his bodyguard followed and when they got to Dey Hoy Market they got into another verbal exchange again, but the police based on the spot intervened for them to stop.

The incident has caused panic to Sen Sok residents who run for cover, but no one was hurt during the gunfires.

Koh Santepheap also reported that in the past Inspector Mok Hong has upset many of his subordinates because he refused to share bribery money he received from people with them. On top of this, he was always very disrepectful and rude to his subordinates when giving orders.

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