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Charity threatens to sue Angelina Jolie

The head of a charity formerly linked to Angelina Jolie's conservation project in Cambodia has threatened to sue the Hollywood star in a row over missing money, a newspaper reported.

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PHNOM PENH: The head of a charity formerly linked to Angelina Jolie's conservation project in Cambodia has threatened to sue the Hollywood star in a row over missing money, a newspaper reported.
 
Mounh Sarath, director of Cambodian Vision in Development, was quoted in the English-language Cambodia Daily as saying Jolie had broken funding promises and accused him of stealing money meant for her work in Cambodia.
 
Mounh Sarath's group had co-managed Jolie's conservation project, along with San Francisco-based WildAid, from 2003 until the end of 2005, when the actress decided not to renew their contracts.
 
But he was quoted as saying the $1.5 million Maddox Jolie Project -- named after her five-year-old son Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia in 2002 -- still belonged to his organisation, adding the actress had reneged on promises to fund CVD.
 
Mounh Sarath reportedly said he received an email from Jolie's lawyers in Los Angeles saying the actress would sue him if he did not retract his accusations against her.
 
"If the lawyer decides to sue me, I will take (legal) action," he was quoted as saying.
 
Stephan Bognar, executive director of the new Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project, which will now implement Jolie's work, said she planned to invest more than $1.5 million to build schools and health care centers, provide training for health workers, and construct public toilets and roads.
 
The program operates in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Samlot, in northwestern Cambodia.
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