The government is investigating a Global Witness report that a Cambodian firm is about to send 100,000 cubic metres of timber to aThai company through Laos. Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai said he had received the report of theLondon-based environmental watchdog agency and relevant state agencies had already been told to verify it. Global Witness claimed in its report to the Foreign Ministry that the timber consignment was to be exported by a Cambodian firm, Pheapimex-Fuchan, which is owned by a Khmer national, Choeng Sopheap, who is said to be close to Second Prime Minister Hun Sen.