A 30-year-old Nigerian man, Francis Ihenwe Oderah, who said he is a footballer in Cambodia has been sentenced to 8 years in jail and fined 40 million riel (about $10,000) for drug trafficking.
DailyMail reports that Oderah was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Choam Chao commune in January with about 100 grams of meth in his possession.
Oderah, during his hearing on June 7 by Judge Svay Tonh in Phnom Penh Municipal Court, reportedly admitted to have acted as a delivery man and insisted that he was not a drug dealer.
However, in his ruling on Tuesday, Tonh ordered that the accused carry out his sentence in Prey Sar prison, where he had been detained since his arrest in January.
The Judge stated, “Three phones and a passport taken from the defendant upon his arrest would be returned.”
