Cambodia search Siwarak's firm

Published on November 18, 2009

Cambodia conducts a search on Wednesday at Cambodia Air Traffic Services (Cats) in Phnom Penh, the company where a Thai engineer arrested for allegedly spying worked, an informed source said.

The search is part of gathering of evidence of a charge filed against Siwarak Chutipong, 31, who was arrested last week for stealing flight information of convicted ex-Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra and Cambodia's PM Hun Sen.

A Phnom Penh court charged Siwarak of stealing information deemed detrimental to national security.

Prosecutors claimed Khmer police seized the flight information from Siwarak when they arrested.

Cats is a subsidiary company of Samart Corps in charge of providing air traffic services in Cambodia.