Groups Prepare Complaints for New Corruption Investigators

At least three local organizations say they are preparing a stack of complaints of graft and misdeeds for submission to the new national Anti-Corruption Unit. Fourteen members of the unit were sworn in on Tuesday, vowing to uphold an anti-corruption law that was passed earlier this year. The complaints, which will be the first test [...]

Court officials alleged as corruption

The corruption is spreading across Cambodia’s court system in Cambodia. Most of Cambodian people feel afraid of the court. They do not hope that the court would serve the common people with fair and justice and they also lost confidence in court. Recently, the owner of Cobra III Guesthouse and Restaurant in Banbambang province filed [...]

Anti-Corruption Unit Sworn In as Investigators

Fourteen members of Cambodia’s nascent Anti-Corruption Unit were sworn in Tuesday, vowing to use their full legal rights to investigate the country’s graft problem. Members include senior government adviser Om Yientang, who is the head of the unit, and his three deputies, Seang Borath, Chay Svauth and Nuon Phal. “We have full legal rights to [...]

Lawmakers Select Two Anti-Corruption Representatives

The National Assembly and Senate established their representatives on a new anti-corruption council on Tuesday, voting respectively for Top Sam and Prak Sok, two members of the Constitutional Council since its 1998 inception. Now the two men, who must be finally approved by the king, will be a part of the 11-member National Anti-Corruption Council, [...]

Controversial pick for anticorruption chief

GOVERNMENT critics have slammed Prime Minister Hun Sen’s appointment of Om Yentieng as head of the country’s new Anticorruption Unit (ACU), saying the choice does not bode well for efforts to eradicate graft. Om Yentieng, a senior adviser to the prime minister and chairman of the government-run Cambodian Human Rights Committee, confirmed Thursday that Hun [...]