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| Officials are seen inspecting two of four trucks that were seized for transporting timber illegally on Friday in Ratanakkiri province. Photo supplied |
Logging trucks seized in Ratanakkiri
Phnom Penh Post | 8 May 2017
Authorities intercepted four trucks carrying 81 pieces of
illegal luxury timber at a checkpoint in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav
district last Friday, District Military Police Commader Sok Min said
yesterday.
“The trucks and timber were hidden in the rubber plantation of a
company located next to the Cambodia-Vietnam border to wait for the
chance to haul the timber to sell in Vietnam via Phnom Krahom
checkpoint, but our forces managed to halt them in time,” Min said.
He added that the trucks and sokram timber, whose owners
have not been identified, are impounded at the District Military Police
office for further legal action by the Forestry Administration.
In a separate case on Saturday, Military Police and Kampong Thom
Provincial Forestry Administration officials intercepted a car carrying
more than a tonne of rosewood in Baray district.
According to District Military Police Commander Khun Bunhuor, the
driver abandoned his car and fled when he noticed the joint forces’
outpost on National Road 6.
“When we received the report from provincial Forestry Administration
patrol team saying that they found a car fully loaded with timber
travelling from Siem Reap to Kampong Thom province on National Road 6,
Baray District Forestry Administration forces worked with Baray District
Military Police forces to set up the outpost to halt and check the
car,” he said.
In a similar case on Friday, a joint force of Kratie provincial
authorities successfully intercepted a timber-loaded car they had been
tailing from Sambor district to Chhlong district, but failed to capture
its driver.
Head of Chhlong District Forestry Administration Phoung Kunlay said
yesterday that the driver had escaped and the seized car and timber were
impounded at their office.
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