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    Two Nigerians Sentenced To Life In Prison For Drug Trafficking In Cambodia

    town gistBy town gistAugust 24, 2022
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    Two Nigerians Sentenced To Life In Prison For Drug Trafficking


    The Phnom Penh Appeal Court has upheld the life sentence given by the municipal court to two Nigerian men, a Filipina and Cambodian woman, in connection with smuggling of more than 2.5 kilogrammes of cocaine from Brazil to Cambodia in 2014.

    Presiding Judge Ky Rithy said, “After having a clear consideration in this case, the Judges’ Council of the Phnom Penh Appeal Court has found that the sentences given by the Phnom Penh Appeal Court is appropriate and fit for their offence.”



    The four convicts have the right to appeal against the judgement to the Supreme Court within a month.


    Judge Ky Rithy named the four as a 49-year-old former nurse from the Philippines, Macoy Mavill Villamor; Nigerian cloth vendors Emmanuel Thankgod, male, 41; and Michael Sunshine, male, 39; and Cambodian Meng Sinuon, 38, a former waitress working with a French-owned-restaurant living in Chamkar Mon district’s Phsar Doeum Thkov commune.

    Macoy was sentenced on September 16, 2014, by the Municipal Court to a life sentence while Sunshine got 30 years, Thankgod 27 years, and Meng Sinuon got 22 years in prison. Besides, all the convicts were slapped with a fine of $10,000 each.



    They were charged with ‘drug transport and trafficking’ under Article 40 of the Law on Drug Control.

    Macoy was arrested on February 12, 2014, at the Phnom Penh International Airport in a joint operation by the police in the anti-drug department at the Ministry of Interior, the excise and customs police officers and immigration police.

    Police seized a total of 2,513 grammes of cocaine powders from Macoy and her confession led to the arrest of Nigerians who arrived to receive the drug from her.

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