On January 22, 2026, a trial judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court announced sentences totalling 13 years and six months for former Neak Oknha Heng Sethy, a 36-year-old man, in four cases.
The four judgments imposed two years for intentional violence; one year and six months for defamation and incitement to discriminate; two years for incitement to cause serious disorder affecting social order; and eight years for aggravated blackmail.
The total sentence in the four cases was thirteen and a half years, or thirteen years and six months. Heng Sethy was being held at M3 prison in Trapeang Phlong, Tboung Khmum province.
On November 20, 2025, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court had held a public trial concerning two criminal cases against him: intentional violence and blackmail.
The King issued a royal decree terminating Heng Sethy's Neak Oknha honorific on December 2, 2024. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued an arrest warrant on December 3, 2024, for aggravated blackmail allegedly committed in Cambodia during November 2024. By: Chinda Titi.
