Eight months later, in January 2011, a letter signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema granted the request. To make up for the alleged loss, she requested land titles for the 4,300 square metres where the two buildings slated for resettlement were supposed to stand. Suy Sophan wrote that she had invested $10.7 million in the eight buildings, in excess of the $7.1 million planned investment for the 10 buildings agreed upon in 2004.
In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Hun Sen, the company maintained that “the real demand of the people” only required eight buildings for 1,392 families. Now, with more than 40 Borei Keila families still in negotiations with City Hall over compensation, a new complex – built from the unfinished shell of Building 9 – is being rented out at market rates.Īccording to the documents, in April 2010 Phanimex requested ownership of the land. She appears to have sold the land later to another powerful businesswoman. In 2004, the residents were told they would receive flats in 10 buildings to be constructed by the developer Phanimex, but hundreds of families were left in limbo when buildings 9 and 10 never materialised – except they did, albeit not in the way residents were promised.ĭocuments obtained by The Post show that Phanimex owner Suy Sophan obtained private titles for the land originally slated for resettled residents. Publication date 08 January 2018 | 06:59 ICTĪs Phnom Penh officials look to close the books on the long-running Borei Keila land dispute, evicted residents are balking for much the same reasons they have for the past 10 years: The compensation on offer is not what they were promised. Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Leonie Kijewski | The Phnom Penh Post
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