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Phnom Penh authorities turned down a request of Thai embassy on Saturday to visit Siwarak Chothipong, an engineer of Cambodia Air Traffic Services, who was arrested on Thursday in Phnom Penh, saying it was holiday.

"Thai embassy's charge d'affiars will ask for the visit again today (Monday). We would like to get information from Khun Siwarak about the allegations," he said.

Cambodia claimed that its police arrested Siwarak and seized flight informations of convicted ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra and Cambodia's premier Hun Sen from him.

The Cambodian authorities told us that Khun Siwarak is fine, he said.

Chawanont dismissed as groundless a report that Cambodia had arrested a security official of Armed Forces Security Center in Phnom Penh on the same charge.