PHNOM PENH, Nov 2 (AFP) - A Cambodian court has sentenced a Taiwanese man to 37 years in jail for drug smuggling and possession of illegal weapons, a judge said Monday.
Judge Chhay Kong of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court said he sentenced 21-year-old Hsiao Kuo-leang on Friday after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin and possession of two handguns.
Hsiao, who was arrested in late 2008 when authorities found the drugs in his car, was also ordered to pay a fine of 25,000 dollars, the judge said.
The judge added that Hsiao also testified that he was hired by another Taiwanese man to set up a laboratory in order to produce drugs to smuggle out of Cambodia.
In recent years a number of Taiwanese nationals, including a 90-year-old man, have been jailed for attempting to smuggle narcotics out of the Cambodian capital.
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