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PHNOM PENH: A Thai national charged with spying on a visit by fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra went on trial in a Cambodian court on Tuesday, facing a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail.
Siwarak Chothipong, 31, an employee at the Cambodia Air Traffic Service, was taken into court under heavy security to face charges that he supplied Thaksin's flight schedule to the Thai embassy when the tycoon visited last month.
Presiding judge Ke Sakhan of Phnom Penh Municipal Court said Siwarak was being tried on charges linked to "national security and public safety" related to offences committed in the capital.
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