David Boyle
The Phnom Penh Post
IN RESPONSE to allegations that a Melbourne-based currency producer had engaged in graft in Cambodia, the Australian embassy in Phnom Penh said Sunday that the company’s executives had been warned of “Australia’s zero tolerance to bribery”, but that the embassy had not been in touch with the company’s local commissioning agent.
Last week, Australian Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Greens Party, said during a senate committee hearing that agents employed by Securency might have bribed local officials.
The company – a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia – manufactures polymer bank notes that are used in nearly 30 countries.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is already investigating whether the company’s commissioning agents offered huge bribes to officials in Malaysia, Vietnam, Nigeria and Indonesia.
“The embassy is aware that Securency was in discussions with the Royal Government,” the embassy said in a statement Sunday, adding that officials from the Australian trade commission and the department of foreign affairs and trade had “assisted” the company “in line with the department’s and Austrade’s guidelines for assisting Australian businesses”.
The statement said embassy officials did not know how long Securency had been negotiating with the government, or whether those negotiations had ended, but said it fell to the company to “conduct proper due diligence on potential business partners before entering a deal”.
The embassy said it had not been in contact with Daryl Dealehr, Securency’s commissioning agent in Cambodia who is also treasurer of the Cambodia Association of Mining and Exploration Companies and the owner of Cambodian Resources Ltd.
Dealehr declined to comment on Sunday.
Brown’s office was unable to elaborate further on Securency’s domestic operations when contacted last week, and pointed to documents already on the public record.
Last week, Australian Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Greens Party, said during a senate committee hearing that agents employed by Securency might have bribed local officials.
The company – a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia – manufactures polymer bank notes that are used in nearly 30 countries.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is already investigating whether the company’s commissioning agents offered huge bribes to officials in Malaysia, Vietnam, Nigeria and Indonesia.
“The embassy is aware that Securency was in discussions with the Royal Government,” the embassy said in a statement Sunday, adding that officials from the Australian trade commission and the department of foreign affairs and trade had “assisted” the company “in line with the department’s and Austrade’s guidelines for assisting Australian businesses”.
The statement said embassy officials did not know how long Securency had been negotiating with the government, or whether those negotiations had ended, but said it fell to the company to “conduct proper due diligence on potential business partners before entering a deal”.
The embassy said it had not been in contact with Daryl Dealehr, Securency’s commissioning agent in Cambodia who is also treasurer of the Cambodia Association of Mining and Exploration Companies and the owner of Cambodian Resources Ltd.
Dealehr declined to comment on Sunday.
Brown’s office was unable to elaborate further on Securency’s domestic operations when contacted last week, and pointed to documents already on the public record.
1 comment:
I'm GAY said...
Yuon exercising its colonial power.
Yuon's new strategies see in an article:
« Le Vietnam au Kampuchéa : La stratégie de consolidation »
by Justus M. Van Der Kroef.
Études internationales, vol. 15, n° 2, 1984, p. 291-309.
I copied a little portion from th abstract. To share.
[Hanoi govemment has sent some 40,000 Vietnamese party cadres, civil officiais and professionally trained to direct public affairs. Additionally, some 100,000 Vietnamese farmer s hâve migrated
into Kampuchea, settling in such key provinces as Kompong Speu, Takeo, and Kompong Cham. Additional tens of thousands of Vietnamese settlers hâve moved into
cities and the disputed frontier area. As fighting between the Vietnamese and résistance
groups affiliated with the ''Coalition Government of Démocratie Kampuchea" intensifies,
the Hanoi régime also has been expanding its logistical-military network. This inciudes the construction of a new road network — popularly called the "New Ho CM Minh Trail" — linking the Vietnamese cities of Hue and Vinh, across Southern Laos,
with Northwestern Kampuchea. Additionally, during the early weeks of 1983, a twentyfive
kilomètres long trench, studded with landmines and bamboo spikes has been constructed just inside the Kampuchean frontier, running from the village of Kop
beyond the village of Yeang Dangkum — a région of fréquent guérilla clashes. Along
with the 180,000 man force of regular military maintained by Vietnam in Kampuchea, thèse measures indicate intentions of Hanoi's consolidation of power. Especially in Southeast Asia fears hâve arisen of a permanent Vietnamese "colonization" process in Kampuchea.]
KI if you are serving Khmers not Yuon, you need to stop mocking around in RED. Your job as KHmer if you are, then search all secret informations (History wrote by real historians by the west) that Yuon have been doing to Cambodia. Post the history How Yuon did kill Khmers, so the Khmers can learn the real history not gossiping. I have so many old documents were written since 1800's, 1900's, I copied from the libraries in Ducth, France, but I have to store them all before they may disppeared. I knew when I start to post them, Yuon will try to kill me as they did to Khmer intellectuals. But I will post them in this very near future for you all to know the facts of savage Yuon.
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