Angelina Jolie may sue Cambodian aid group

By Stone Martindale Oct 31, 2006, 18:16 GMT

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia- Angelina Jolie may file a lawsuit against the head of a Cambodian aid group she alleges misappropriated her donations.

"We are considering filing a lawsuit to recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars that is missing and which he was responsible for," Trevor Neilson, who is the philanthropic and political advisor for Jolie and partner Brad Pitt, told The Associated Press in New York Monday.

Neilson was referring to Mounh Sarath, director of Cambodian Vision in Development, to whom Jolie once gave funds for conservation and community development work in Cambodia. He was responding to Mounh Sarath's claims that Jolie had reneged on an agreement by stopping funds for his group.

"We have specific evidence (of) him having taken the money, and we are considering whether to file a lawsuit or press charges against him in Cambodia," he said.
 
Jolie has set up an independent Cambodian organization to administer a conservation project for remote northwestern areas of Cambodia, the director of the new group said Monday.