Mr. Lee Chim Hsin

It comes after weeks of quiet investigations climaxing with the hired killing of the President of the Taiwan Business Association here, Lee Chin Hsin, earlier this month.

Lee, 43, was gunned down near his home in Toul Kork, while Liu Chieu Chin, son of another Taiwanese businessman was wounded.

Lee headed the association as a contact point for Taiwanese businesses in the absence of diplomatic relation s between Cambodia and Taiwan

Although preliminary investigations point to a business for the shooting, some say the killers are linked to the triad.

The authorities investigating the case then stumbled into Chen Chi-li, 58, who was picked up in his home, also in Toul Kork, and charged him with illegal possession of weapons and running a private army.

Chen, now under remand, is said to be an underground boss in Taibei and wanted there for fraud.

According to reports, Taiwan authorities are to seek help of Interpol to extradite Chen as there is no treaty between the two sides.

On Friday, another ethnic Chinese, who was identified as Phu Lee, 29, was arrested, foiling an apparent attempt to kidnap a Taiwanese businessman.

Lee Hi, Geraldine Cox

Date : Monday, July 31, 2000, DATE : [ 07/31/2000 ]

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PHNOM PENH, July 6 (Reuters) - Cambodian police said on Thursday they arrested a Taiwan businessman and three Cambodians in connection with the murder of the president of the Taiwan Business Association in Cambodia, Lee Chim Hsin.

``We have arrested four suspects, one Taiwanese and three Cambodians, in connection with the murder of Mr. Lee Chim Hsin, ' senior Phnom Penh police official Lek Vannak told Reuters.

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Lee was shot and killed by gunmen on a motorcycle on June 29 outside his Phnom Penh home.A fellow Taiwan national, Liu Chuen Chin, was slightly wounded in the attack.

The three Cambodian suspects were arrested late on Wednesday, while the Taiwan suspect was arrested in his office early on Thursday, police said.The four are being held in detention prior to the filing of formal charges.

Lek Vannak said the detained man from Taiwan was suspected of engaging an ethnic Chinese interpreter to arrange Lee's killing after he intervened in a business dispute between businessmen from Taiwan.

Lee's murder has sent shockwaves through the Taiwan business community and sparked fears of a downturn in Taiwan investment into Cambodia.

Cambodia has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, which is Cambodia's third largest source of foreign investment, most of it in the garment sector.

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PHNOM PENH, July 1 (Reuters) - Taiwanese businessmen warned on Saturday that their future investment in Cambodia hinged on a successful resolution of the murder of Lee Chim Hsin, president of the Taiwan Business Association in Cambodia.

Lee was shot dead on Thursday by two motorcyclists outside his Phnom Penh home in what police are describing as a contract killing.So far no arrests have been made.

The investment warning came from a visiting delegation of Taiwanese businessmen who work in various countries throught the region.

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Police told Reuters on Saturday they were investigating the possibility that Lee was killed for attempting to mediate in a business dispute between two other Taiwanese investors.

Cambodia has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, its third-largest source of foreign exchange, primarily in the garment sector.

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They said Lee Chim Hsin, who was also the owner of a construction company in Cambodia, was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen late on Thursday afternoon while sitting in the back of his car.

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An unidentified Taiwanese man accompanying Lee was slightly wounded in the attack.

Officials of Cambodia's Taiwanese Business Association confirmed details of the attack.

Sun Sy Har, spokesman for the Taiwanese Business Association, told Reuters that Lee's body would be repatriated to Taiwan.