Inquiry links Cambodian leader’s nephew to drug trafficking, money laundering

Australian police suspect the nephew of Cambodia’s Prime Minister is involved in a heroin trafficking and money laundering syndicate targeting Australia. But a plan to arrest and question Hun To in Melbourne was thwarted because his application for a visa was denied by the Australian embassy in Phnom Penh, with one official citing the need to avoid a diplomatic incident. The targeting of Mr Hun To by an Australian Crime Commission inquiry that ran between 2002 and 2004 is one of several incidents that suggest strong and continuing links between Australian crime figures and Cambodia, Sydney Morning Herald reports.