Maltey in line for early release
TWO disgraced officials, including former Phnom Penh Municipal Court president Ang Maltey, and a paedophile were among the prisoners granted a six-month sentence reduction during this year’s Water Festival.
The latest round of royallydecre e d l e ni e ncy a l s o included unconditional pardons for six people, including a murderer and rapist, according to the November Royal Book.
Signed by King Nordom Sihamoni, the decrees state that 45 prisoners will get half a year off their time, including Maltey and former Phnom Penh police anti-drug chief Touch Muysor.
Muysor was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2009 for bribery and possessing drugs. Maltey, meanwhile, was sentenced in February to serve 24 months of a three-year sentence for making personal use of an SUV confiscated from a convicted drug dealer.
The cut will see the former top judge, who was also accused of taking a hefty bribe, be eligible for release next month.
French national Michel Roger Blanchard, arrested in 2008, will also get six months off his 17-year sentence for child sex charges, handed down in 2010. Other recipients of the cut included prisoners convicted of murder, rape, drug possession and sex trafficking. Their sentences ranged from two to 15 years.
Meanwhile, six prisoners also walked out of jail with pardons, among them Herm Meak, arrested in 2007 and sentenced to 15 years for rape, CONTINUED
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