Four traders charged for selling ivory

An antiques and memento store proprietor was charged within the Phnom Penh Municipal Courtroom for possession and promoting uncommon and endangered samples [bones] with out permission.

Three different antiques and memento merchants, who’re at massive, have been additionally charged. The court docket issued warrants of arrest for the trio. The trio’s property have additionally been frozen and their houses sealed.

The 4, who function their companies within the Roluos neighbourhood in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, have been recognized as La Sengnguon, Sok Theara, Ly Henghour and Sey Hour.

They have been charged yesterday with “possessing and promoting ivory with out permission” underneath Article 98 of the Legislation on Forestry and face jail phrases of between one and three years if convicted.

Forestry Administration Division Heng Sopheng mentioned Sengguon was arrested on Wednesday after his division officers raided his store with municipal navy forces and led by the court docket’s deputy prosecutor.

Sopheng mentioned the three different accused fled through the raid that noticed substantial portions of ivory and wild boar and tiger enamel seized.

He mentioned that after raiding and seizing the uncommon and endangered merchandise, the deputy prosecutor froze their property and sealed their houses.