The deadline for public officials to declare their assets passed at midnight Thursday. But with the anti-corruption unit silent on the number of officials who met the deadline, critics are questioning the effectiveness of the law.
PRIME Minister Hun Sen will convene a meeting of the Council of Ministers today to vote on the passage of three new subdecrees, granting the Kingdom’s Anticorruption Unit a full scope of powers to combat graft.
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s new anti-corruption unit announced its first arrests Wednesday as one of the world’s most corrupt nations tries to prove it is serious about fighting rampant graft. Top Chan Sereivuth, a prosecutor at a court in western Pursat province, was arrested along with his two bodyguards on Monday, said the chief of [...]
An official says a Cambodian provincial prosecutor has become the first person to be arrested under a new anti-corruption law. The head of the government’s anti-corruption unit, Om Yentieng, says Pursat provincial prosecutor Tob Chan Sereivuth was charged Tuesday with accepting bribes to release timber smugglers and with extorting money from local people, the military [...]
The head of the Anticorruption Unit has led police in the apprehension of a Pursat provincial prosecutor and two bodyguards working for him, marking the first arrests made by the recently established body. Nget Theavy, provincial Adhoc coordinator, said ACU head Om Yentieng, who is also a senior adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, accompanied [...]
Cambodia’s new anti-corruption strategy is a welcome step forward but there are some serious flaws in its design that mean it will fail to tackle corruption at the top of the political elite, warned Global Witness today. The lack of separation between the new Anti-Corruption Unit and the executive is a major weakness that makes [...]
A long-awaited anticorruption was passed by the National Assembly and the Senate, it will be coming into effect at the end of the year 2011. Therefore, all government officials who are involved with graft would not be arrested for prosecutions. By the way, the Criminal Code will be officially implemented by December 2010. Om Yentieng, [...]
A watchdog organization issued 90 complaints representing thousands of people to the nascent Anti-Corruption Unit on Thursday, claiming tax agents for the Ministry of Finance have been overcharging for annual vehicle stickers. The complaints come from 2,700 people across 14 provinces and constitute the first real test of the ACU, which was established under a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]