Always hard at work, our underpaid constabulary.
A Khmer-American friend of mine acknowledges that he made a mistake when trusting a Cambodian acquaintance. That trust has cost him well more than $1 million, a loss he can ill-afford. Not many ordinary Khmer-American businessmen could.
From what I gather, my friend — call him Hak — doled out monthly payments to the guy. The man — I’ll call him Vwibol — apparently was to lend that money to other Cambodians at admittedly exorbitant, but commonly charged, rates. (The details that Hak provides tend to be kind of vague, so I am not even positive about the nature of his monthly investments.)
Every month, Vwibol would return some thousands of dollars to Hak. But the money stopped coming in September. Vwibol says Continue reading
