Meas Sambath, a previous bodyguard for disrespected military general Thong Sarath, stood firm on Monday in the continuous trial over the 2014 homicide of magnate Ung Meng Chue, affirming that he was playing cards throughout the day upon the arrival of the hit and did not leave his manager's office complex.
Mr. Sambath and four kindred watchmen were accused of doing a death on the requests of Mr. Sarath, whose family likewise has incomprehensible business possessions including development firm Borey 999. The general was accused of inciting the killing and captured a year ago after a monthslong manhunt.
Bodyguards Sieng Veasna and Ly Sao were both accused of planned homicide after police said they confessed to heading to a Phnom Penh natural product store where Mr. Veasna shot Ung Meng Chue six times as he left his Lexus SUV at around 7 p.m. on November 22, 2014.
Ly Sao kicked the bucket in June of encephalitis. Mr. Sambath, alongside kindred bodyguards Koy Chanthul and Chhun Chetra, were charged as accessories for purportedly keeping watch over the scene. The four surviving bodyguards have subsequent to demanded they were blameless and abnegated their admissions.
On the stand on Monday, Mr. Sambath said he had never known about the casualty until a video of his homicide was presented on Facebook.
"I remained by at Borey 999 from at a young hour in the morning until 7 p.m.," he said of the organization's Phnom Penh office building. "In the morning, we played card diversions and afterward after lunch we proceeded with our amusement."
"I didn't go anyplace," he said. "Be that as it may, I don't think about Sieng Veasna."
Mr. Sarath was again missing from the trial on Monday because of progressing wellbeing issues. Ngy Meng, executive of the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, affirmed that Mr. Sarath had been in and out of the healing center, however said he didn't recognize what he was experiencing.
