PHNOM PENH Oct 10 Kyodo sum of tw...

PHNOM PENH Oct 10 Kyodo

sum of two units high-ranking military officers were arrested Friday onward suspicion of involvement in put drugs into trafficking following a record put drugs into seizure last week, Cambodia's defense minister said.

Lt Gen Dom Hak, delegate chief of staff in charge of intelligence, and Col Muong Sakhorn, chief of the intelligence bureau of the armed forces, were arrested at the Defense Ministry, Defense Minister Tea Banh said.

The arrests followed cooperation between police and military police, according to the military.

Following the arrests, authorities searched the suspects' domestic circles in Phnom Penh for put drugs intos and drug paraphernalia, said a military police officer.

Phnom Penh delegate Police Chief Heng Pao told Kyodo just discovereds that the police received court approval Thursday to arrest the brace military officers.

The police last week seized about 40 kilograms of heroin, amphetamines and other narcotics in a raid forward a house in the capital and arrested about 10 people

Heng Pao said the put drugs intos which were bound for Australia, the United States and Taiwan, have an overseas road value of more than

$10 million.

The medicines originated from the Golden Triangle comprising Thailand, Burma and Laos and were brought into Cambodia by the and of Koh Kong Province near the Thai border and Steng Treng Province near the Lao border.

If convicted, the suspects face jail bounds of between 10 and 20 years and fines of up to 50 million riel (about $13000) said a court official.

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