FAKE "CAMBODIAN" coming from Cambodia occupied by Vietnam.
The facts :(Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution
A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of
Vietnamese forces from Cambodia.)
Thursday, June 10, 2010Cambodian woman arrested for importing heroin pellets to
Australia inside her body Man charged with importing heroin
June 10, 2010 AAP
A 49-year-old man has been charged with trying to import heroin into Australia
in his shoes.
The man, from Cabramatta in Sydney's west, was searched by customs officers
after arriving in Sydney on a flight from Vietnam on Wednesday.
"Officers found a substance in his shoes. Initial testing indicated the
presence of heroin," a joint statement from Customs and Border Protection and
the Australian Federal Police said.
Advertisement: Story continues below"Further forensic testing will be
undertaken to confirm the exact weight and purity of the substance."
The man was due to appear in Sydney Central Local Court on Thursday.
Meanwhile, a 37-year-old Cambodian woman has been charged with importing drugs
after arriving in Australia with her partner on a flight from Bangkok on Sunday.
Both were stopped by customs at the airport after officers became suspicious
they may have been concealing drugs internally.
They were taken by Australian Federal Police to hospital for medical
examinations.
"It will be alleged in court that the woman passed 170 pellets of a substance
believed to be heroin," the agencies said in a statement.
The woman was due to appear in Sydney Central Local Court on Thursday.
A 31-year-old Cambodian man faced court on Wednesday on drug importation
charges.
The maximum penalty for importing a marketable quantity of heroin is 25 years'
jail and/or a $550,000 fine.
From: chaub...@hotmail.com
To: camdisc@googlegroups.com
Subject: FAKE "CAMBODIAN" IN AMERICA with mail fraud, tax evasion and
embezzling $51,000 in Medicare money.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:06:53 -0700
FAKE "CAMBODIAN" IN AMERICA
LYING DOES NOT PAY RIGHT ?
Mail fraud, tax evasion and embezzling $51,000 in Medicare money.
Thursday, June 10, 2010, 11:32
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បញ្ចេញមតិផ្ទាល់ខ្លួន
By Katie Mulvaney, Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Cheang Chea says he spent five months in a forced labor camp in
Cambodia in the 1970s as punishment for supporting America.
Cheang Chea, owner of a temporary employment agency, who failed to pay millions
of dollars in federal payroll taxes, at his home in Providence. The Providence
Journal / Kathy Borchers
Now, the 73-year-old Cambodian refugee faces up to 35 years in prison in the
country he fled to after admitting he failed to pay $7 million to $20 million
in federal withholding taxes for non-English speaking workers he placed in
manufacturing jobs.
“I am going to go to jail by America, too,” Chea said Wednesday, standing in
the doorway of his brick colonial house on Smith Hill.
Chea pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday to mail fraud, tax evasion
and embezzling $51,000 in Medicare money.
The government estimates that from 2004 to 2008, he underreported — by $17.3
million to $49.6 million — the wages of the more than 200 workers his firm, S &
P Help Services Inc., placed in temporary jobs.
Prosecutors say Chea supplied temporary workers to about 30 manufacturers in
Rhode Island and Massachusetts. (Chea places the number at 10.) Jim Martin, a
spokesman for U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha, would not identify the
businesses, but said Chea’s firm handled the payroll for the temporary
employees, including paying taxes and covering workers’ compensation insurance.
The companies would send S & P a check to cover the employees’ pay, and, in
some cases, Chea would cash checks of more than $200,000, Martin said. Chea
paid most of the employees in cash, he said. He declined to say whether Chea
paid the workers appropriate wages.
A Buddhist, Chea says he was trying to help poor people, many of whom did not
speak English and came from Cambodia, Laos, China and Spanish-speaking
countries.
Contrary to the government’s assertions that some were illegal immigrants, Chea
says the workers he found jobs for out of offices in Providence and Attleboro
are here legally. A spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
would not comment on the case.
“I try to help people,” said Chea, who shared bits of his story on the front
stoop of his 150 Home Ave. house as a light rain fell on his well-kept lawn and
a black Mercedes sedan sat in his garage. He told of becoming emaciated during
his months in the labor camp and of people being publicly executed for stealing
fruit. He was among 2 workers out of 13 working for a hydroelectric plant not
to be executed by the Khmer Rouge, he said.
He fled Cambodia in 1979, arriving in the United States as a refugee two years
later.
News of Chea’s guilty plea shocked the immigrant community Wednesday, where he
was known as a generous man who donated money to Buddhist temples in Rhode
Island, as well as large sums to build a hospital in Cambodia. He gave money to
friends in need.
“He was helping rebuild Cambodia is what he’s doing, and helping get people
jobs here,” said Molly Soum, former president of the Cambodian Society of Rhode
Island. “He has given a lot of jobs to people in the community.”
Chea secured assembly-line jobs in jewelry manufacturing and as machinists,
Soum said. They were often paid $5, $6 and $7 an hour, she said. (The state
minimum wage is $7.40.)
“They do whatever … as long as they have food,” Soum said. It is sad, she said,
to hear Chea is facing prison time, but equally disappointed that he paid
people low wages.
She speculated that his crimes might have been preventable. “People from our
country don’t take taxes seriously,” she said.
For his part, Chea seems resigned to the fact that he will do jail time, but he
says it won’t compare to his months in prison in Cambodia. He plans to keep
running his business until he is sentenced in October.
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