Amid continuing public doubts about the detention of a woman accused of driving into a motorcyclist, a Public Works Ministry official who died at the scene, General Department of Prisons spokesperson ឃៀង សុណាឌីន clarified that the accused, សាម ម៉ីជូ, is being held at Phnom Penh Prison on charges of causing another person’s death in a traffic accident and fleeing the scene. He said this was not a case of going “in through the front door and out through the back.”
In a Facebook statement on July 31, 2026, the spokesperson said សាម ម៉ីជូ, as a person accused of causing another person’s death in a traffic accident and fleeing the scene, was being held at Phnom Penh Prison under a detention order issued that day by an investigating judge of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
ឃៀង សុណាឌីន added that, contrary to comments on social media alleging that people go “in through the front door and out through the back,” prisons nationwide strictly follow prison procedures for admitting or releasing anyone after a decision by the judicial authorities.
សាម ម៉ីជូ, owner of an AVATR 11, was charged by a prosecutor attached to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court with causing another person’s death in a traffic accident and fleeing the scene, in an incident in front of AEON 2 on Street 1003, បន្លាស្អិត village, Khmuon commune, Sen Sok district, Phnom Penh. According to a July 31, 2026 press release by the court’s spokesperson, the alleged offenses fall under Article 85 of the Law on Road Traffic and Article 543 of Cambodia’s Criminal Code. After questioning the accused and examining the evidence, the investigating judge ordered pretrial detention while the investigation continued in accordance with legal procedures.
By: ង៉ែត ពិសាន្ត
