Friday, February 06, 2009

High Cambodian officials accused of graft

Thursday 5th February, 2009
Malaysia News.Net

A small number of officials and businessmen in Cambodia have been accused of taking millions of dollars from oil and mineral deals.

The Global Witness organization has revealed an elite group was probably able to siphon millions from the impoverished country's fast-growing oil and mining sectors.

Millions of dollars of Cambodian mining, oil, and gas concessions were paid in the form of up-front bonuses to the government by private companies.

Global Witness has accused Prime Minister Hun Sen of being among the group, along with military commanders, businessmen, and the chairman of the human rights commission.

Cambodia's foreign ministry has refused to make any comment on the accusations but the Cambodian Embassy in London, where Global Witness is centered, has posted comments on its website to say the accusations are part of a malicious campaign to damage Cambodia’s economic development.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

i think global witness has history of trying to tarnish cambodia's image before by such baseless accusation. i ask that they deal with cambodia through a diplomatic channel and provide real, concrete evidence of their groundless, speculatative based on their implication of "risk" in order to spread rumours, especially when they compared cambodia to that of nigeria or some other very corrupted countries on the planet. that's not fair for cambodia. khmer people ask that such grave accusation be supported by real manifested evidence. otherwise, it is groundless to speculate so!

Anonymous said...

No, it's not part of a "malicious campaign to damage Cambodia's economic development" you idiot Cambodians at the Royal Cambodian Embassy in London.

The imbecile Hun Sen operates Cambodia as if he is the boss of a mafia. The worthless crooked Cambodian politicians, especially the ones in that brothel of a party (the CPP) all care only for what can go in their wallets and sucking up to Hun Sen just to get a piece of his scraps. The corrupted military commanders are even more worthless. They parade around in their meaningless general's stars and nice little pretty uniforms all day knowing nothing about the duties and service that they are to perform. The police are just a bunch of CPP henchmen and are hopeless bunch of unintelligent thugs taking orders from Hun Sen and his spoiled family members.

Anonymous said...

Quote at 12:27PM comments "khmer people ask that such grave accusation be supported by real manifested evidence. otherwise, it is groundless to speculate so!"

This COMMENTS IS MISS-LEADING

KHMER PEOPLE ARE NOT THE TOPIC HERE. The Khmer People are the Victim of the CPP leadership who is the CORRUPT ONE.

What Mr Hayman and Global Witness highlight are everyday activity in Cambodia. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW JUST ASK THE KHMER PEOPLE WHO IS NOT IN THE CPP GOVERNMENT THE people ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS IS THE REAL EVIDENCES OF WHAT CORRUPTION IS LIKE IN CAMBODIA...

Anonymous said...

There is NO REAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT or any DEVELOPMENT IN CAMBODIA THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE.
It is the enactment of DICTATOR CPP GOVENMENT DEFENDING it corruption practice i'm Cambodian and i'm asham of HAVING A CPP GOVERNMENT.

What SORT OF development if one day you own a house the next day your HOUSE AND LAND BELONG TO THE CPP GOVERNMENT, BUSINESSMEN OR AN OFFICIALS?

What kind of development when fewer Khmer people have ownership to their land,water,sea?
If you check almost every slice of Cambodia business belong to a CPP government officials.

Anonymous said...

Leave it up to the Western educated 9-5 pricks who can't even pay his own bills on time to tell my Khmer people what to do.

I'm sick of you fucking self-proclaimed Western educated morons trying to compare Cambodia to any Western nation. Do you understand the term "culture?" Different culture, different way of life, different beliefs.

The problem is that the fucking Westerns and a few Khmer who are fall into that superior Western knowledge come into the country and want Cambodia to run like other Western nation. It'ain't gonna fly, buddy. Look around you. Has the Western world ever been successful in turning any country they want to be just like them?
South Vietnam, current Iraq, etc.. It won't ever work.

Anonymous said...

Hey a lop 2:23 I'm Khmer living in Cambodia, but I'm fully support The Global Witness. Why? Because I know there are a lot of corruption activity taking place in Cambodia, but a simple citizen like me and the rest can't do anything to the gang government CPP.
I wonder you're Khmer or not or just some punk belong to the CPP, did they give you shit to eat that's why your eye is so blind and your mouth so stink?

Anonymous said...

There go another victim (5:39) of Ah Evil Scam Rainxy whos see the west as their God and Khmer as their pee-on slave to be used for political gain.

Anonymous said...

CPP's Chihuahua (guard dog) = 11:00 PM He is no way "ah potato digger" but a "small CPP potato" paid to bark like a chihuahua...