No review of KRT graft claims aired on CNN
Monday, 04 May 2009
Written by Georgia Wilkins The Phnom Penh Post
CORRUPTION allegations against the Cambodian side of the Khmer Rouge tribunal aired by the American news network CNN on Friday will not be investigated, a court official told the Post on Sunday.
"There is nothing in the report that is new, or that I haven't heard before," said public affairs chief Helen Jarvis. "There are no specific complaints that are identified or clear enough."
The report included interviews with two court staffers, their identities hidden, who claimed Sean Visoth, the court's chief administrator, took kickbacks totalling US$40,000 a month from staff salaries.
Jarvis said Sean Visoth is no longer on the court's payroll.
Phay Siphan, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, told the Post on Sunday that the corruption allegations were not only unfounded, but were made with malicious intent.
"These are just accusations from people wanting to discredit the court and bring it down," he said. "We have had seven international audits of the court already and none has found solid evidence."
The kickback allegations were the subject of an earlier UN review, the results of which have yet to be made public, despite calls for their release from defence lawyers at the tribunal.
Phay Siphan rejected calls for another investigation, saying the UN "is not perfect. They are not God. They did not come from heaven".
"There is nothing in the report that is new, or that I haven't heard before," said public affairs chief Helen Jarvis. "There are no specific complaints that are identified or clear enough."
The report included interviews with two court staffers, their identities hidden, who claimed Sean Visoth, the court's chief administrator, took kickbacks totalling US$40,000 a month from staff salaries.
Jarvis said Sean Visoth is no longer on the court's payroll.
Phay Siphan, a spokesman for the Council of Ministers, told the Post on Sunday that the corruption allegations were not only unfounded, but were made with malicious intent.
"These are just accusations from people wanting to discredit the court and bring it down," he said. "We have had seven international audits of the court already and none has found solid evidence."
The kickback allegations were the subject of an earlier UN review, the results of which have yet to be made public, despite calls for their release from defence lawyers at the tribunal.
Phay Siphan rejected calls for another investigation, saying the UN "is not perfect. They are not God. They did not come from heaven".
2 comments:
mother fucker thing only from heaven can be fair??????
Do ma ah phd from fucking Hanoi motherfucker!
It should be pointed out that Helen Jarvis was a member of the Australian Branch of the hugely discredited Trotskyst Party. Her husband, Allen Myers was the editor of the Green Left Review, the official mouthpiece of the party which always supported initially the Khmer Rouge revolution and then switched to supporting the Hun Sen regime established by the Vietnamese Army in Cambodia.
Do not, therefore, expect, any investigation of corruption claims on the Cambodian side of that farce known as the ECCC.
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