Adam Miller and Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
Some 84 percent of Cambodians say they have paid a bribe in the last 12 months, according to a global corruption survey released yesterday by German NGO Transparency International on International Anti-Corruption Day.
The report, titled 2010 Global Corruption Barometer, was based on polling of 91,000 people in 86 countries and focused on small-scale corruption.
Cambodia ranked among the leading nations where residents most frequently paid some form of bribe, based on surveys of 1,000 Cambodians conducted by Indochina Research in July.
The findings coincide with new efforts by the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit, established earlier this year to address chronic corruption in the Kingdom, and a growing perception among residents that such efforts are effective.
Seventy-two percent of respondents ranked the government’s efforts to battle corruption as effective or extremely effective.
‘The survey findings are surprising,” Ran Liao, Transparency International’s senior programme coordinator for East and South Asia, said in a phone interview from Germany yesterday.
“I’m not sure why the respondent rate is so high as to why the government is so effective against corruption … in Cambodia. Seventy-two percent of respondents see the government as very effective, which is really above the average and quite high.”
The ACU convened a workshop yesterday to announce the implementation of a policy first introduced in July to require the declaration of all assets by more than 100,000 government officials beginning January1.
“We are starting to fight corruption from the lowest to the highest levels, from small groups to big groups,” said Om Yentieng, head of the ACU and close adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen.
He added that the arrest last week of Pursat provincial prosecutor Top Chan Sereyvuth and two of his bodyguards on charges of corruption, extortion and false imprisonment – the first official arrest by the national anti-corruption body – affirmed the unit’s commitment to battling graft.
Om Yentieng told the workshop that the ACU was also investigating additional corruption cases in Battambang but declined to provide details to delegates.
5 comments:
You paid for, because you are not qualification. It means you are involving into the corruption system.
I hope one day soon, China will bomb Hanoi like the US bombed iraq.
fight against or cleaning the corruption must start from top to bottom, not the other way around like Mr. Om Yintieng said. If you start from bottom, how long does it take to get to the top- never- because Yientien is one of the tops.
smart comment of Mr. Om Yintieng.
Friend,corruption in Cambodia is tolerated and designed so we would not be able to develop our belove country. We are at the stage of our final breath, the enemy has reach to the point of taking over our country. We are nothing more just a memory. Our provinces name will be changed just like in Kampuchear Kromp. And what our current Khmer (majority of them are not Khmer just names only)are not interest of do anything for Khmer benefit, but for their small families. Hun Sen? He is sooooo afraid of Vietnamese and yet he will murder your entire family without thinking twice.
Corruption from the top the bottom.
All these people are greedy, fault,and dumb.The more they have these three things in their mind,the more they fail and collapse in govt.
The time for Hun Sen to be dead is coming soon.
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