Hand Back Your House, PM Tells Kong Koam
Kong Koam, a Candlelight Party adviser. Photo: Kong Koam's Facebook Page
- By Phoung Vantha
- January 11, 2023 6:45 PM
PHNOM PENH – Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Candlelight Party adviser Kong Koam to give back a house and land he was allowed to use when he was foreign minister in the 1980s.
"Legally, this house and land still belong to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," Hun Sen said. "It is time for the ministry to take back this house and land to be used for the ministry's work."
Hun Sen said he never decided to give the house and land to Kong Koam as private property.
The issue emerged after Kong Koam sent a clarification letter to Fresh News over an interview with Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong who said Kong Koam took the property without permission.
Koam wrote that he came to live on the land with the understanding of Hun Sen in 1982. He had been given title to the land in 2015.
However, Hun Sen posted on Facebook that "All Kong Koam's documents to request a title deed to this land and house was fraud to take state land and houses as private property."
