PHNOM PENH, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's former deputy prime minister Nhek Bun Chhay was called into questioning on Thursday afternoon for allegedly involving in illicit drug production in 2007, a government-aligned media reported.
"Phnom Penh municipal police implement a court warrant and bring Nhek Bun Chhay for questioning for his alleged involvement in a drug production case in Kampong Speu province in 2007," the Fresh News quoted National Police chief Gen. Neth Savoeun as saying.
Nhek Bun Chhay, 59, was a former deputy prime minister from 2004 to 2013 when he was a senior member of the royalist Funcinpec Party, which is in alliance with the ruling Cambodian People's Party of Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen.
He left Funcinpec Party in February and formed his own party called the "Khmer National United Party."
In June, the prime minister ousted Nhek Bun Chhay from the government adviser role after the government found that he secretly supported the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party.
