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Wed, 08/12/2009
Phnom Penh - The Appeal Court in Phnom Penh has indefinitely delayed the extradition hearing of a Russian businessman convicted of sexually abusing underaged girls in Cambodia, according to media reports Wednesday.
Businessman Alexander Trofimov, whose real name is Molodyakov Stanislav, was heading a 300-million-dollar tourist resort development in southern Cambodia when he was arrested on child sex charges in September 2007. A Cambodian court sentenced him to 17 years in jail.
Trofimov is wanted in Russia on similar charges.
Chuon Sunleng, one of three Appeal Court judges assessing the case, told the Cambodia Daily newspaper that police in the southern town of Sihanoukville, where Trofimov is in jail, had failed to bring him to court.
"The summons had already reached the prison, but I don't know how this (absence) happened," he was quoted as saying.
Provincial prison director Heng Huon said Trofimov had asked not to be sent to the hearing in Phnom Penh as he didn't have a lawyer, the report said.
Trofimov has reportedly been allowed out of jail by Heng Huon several times to inspect the island resort development. (dpa)
Wed, 08/12/2009
Phnom Penh - The Appeal Court in Phnom Penh has indefinitely delayed the extradition hearing of a Russian businessman convicted of sexually abusing underaged girls in Cambodia, according to media reports Wednesday.
Businessman Alexander Trofimov, whose real name is Molodyakov Stanislav, was heading a 300-million-dollar tourist resort development in southern Cambodia when he was arrested on child sex charges in September 2007. A Cambodian court sentenced him to 17 years in jail.
Trofimov is wanted in Russia on similar charges.
Chuon Sunleng, one of three Appeal Court judges assessing the case, told the Cambodia Daily newspaper that police in the southern town of Sihanoukville, where Trofimov is in jail, had failed to bring him to court.
"The summons had already reached the prison, but I don't know how this (absence) happened," he was quoted as saying.
Provincial prison director Heng Huon said Trofimov had asked not to be sent to the hearing in Phnom Penh as he didn't have a lawyer, the report said.
Trofimov has reportedly been allowed out of jail by Heng Huon several times to inspect the island resort development. (dpa)
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