The Penal police in the Ministry of Interior yesterday started questioning Lieutenant General Kem Cheat, a former Ministry Undersecretary of State and Vice-Chairman of Cambodian Counter Counterfeit Committee (CCCC), over allegations he committed graft in 2021.
Lieutenant General Ngeng Chour, Chief of Penal Department in the Ministry of Interior, said yesterday that Lt Gen Cheat was questioned for a whole day at the General Secretariat of National Police.
Lt Gen Chour said that the suspect was sued by the Chhivtimex Group which accused him of allegedly receiving $100,000 and 48 bottles of red wines in exchange for permission to re-open the company after it allegedly failed an inspection in 2021.
“Our penal police experts are continuing to question him at the General Secretariat of National Police. His questioning is not finished yet,” he said.
Lt Gen Chour declined to give further details about the case.
Touch Sokhak, Spokesman at the Ministry of Interior, said that the Ministry and the General Secretariat of National Police have examined the complaint as well as other evidence submitted by the Chhivtimex Group and have found sufficient cause to investigate Lt Gen Cheat’s activities.
He said that the Penal Police Department of the General Secretariat of National Police is now verifying the details provided in Chhivtimex Group’s complaint.
“We cannot comment in detail about his case because it is currently under police investigation,” he said.
Related to the CCCC’s irregularities, Sokhak said that after the completion of investigation over the committee’s police officers performances, Prime Minister Hun Manet on Tuesday transferred its Chief of Secretariat Lieutenant General Tan Sokvichea to work as an advisor at the Ministry of Interior, a position which is equal to rank as a Chief of Department.
He noted that on December 22, the Minister of Interior had transferred a total of 50 police officers working with the CCCC to work in other departments at the General Commissariat of the National Police.
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