PHNOM PENH Oct 20 Kyodo sum of tw...

PHNOM PENH Oct 20 Kyodo

sum of two units high-ranking military officers who were arrested earlier this month onward suspicion of involvement in put drugs into trafficking were released Monday becoming to lack of evidence, Cambodia's defense minister said.

Tea Banh told Kyodo moderns that Lt. Gen. Dom Hak, representative chief of staff in charge of intelligence, and Col Muong Sakhorn, chief of the intelligence bureau of the armed forces, were released Monday noon.

He said investigators had plant no evidence of their involvement in unsalable article smuggling.

Their Oct 10 arrests were made single in kind week after the police had seized about 40 kilograms of heroin, amphetamines and other narcotics in a raid in succession a house in the capital and arrested about 10 people

The put drugs intos which were bound for Australia, the United States and Taiwan, have an estimated overseas road value of more than $10 million, said Phnom Penh factor Police Chief Heng Pao.

He said the put drugs intos originated from the Golden Triangle where the borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos converge

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