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Cambodia’s El Chapo Captured After 3 Years

 

Phnom Penh: At 16:15, January 11, 2019, the Criminal Police Department, cooperating with the Anti-Narcotics Research Unit’s Anti-Narcotics Research Unit, arrested a man in Sangkat Boeng Keng Kang 1, Khan Chamkar Morn, Phnom Penh.

The suspect, identified only as No. 652 “H” Dorn was arrested on a court order dated September 20, 2016.

The suspect was tried in absentia on September 20, 2016, and convicted to life imprisonment and fined sixty million Riels for drug trafficking cases.

The man was involved in an operation, which, on June 15, 2015, saw the arrest of four perpetrators and the seizure of 54kg of drugs including meth, yama, heroin and cannabis. The man managed to escape capture and has been on the run ever since. MMC News

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