Monday, March 12, 2012

Sok Kong's Sokimex has siphoned the majority of funds recouped from tourist entrance fees to the world heritage site

Sok Kong
Angkor corruption alleged

Monday, 12 March 2012
Meas Sokchea and Bridget Di Certo
The Phnom Penh Post

An anonymous group on Saturday filed a corruption complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit against senator Sok Kong’s Sokimex company’s management of the Angkor Wat temple complex.

The complaint, dated March 10, alleges Sokimex has siphoned the majority of funds recouped from tourist entrance fees to the world heritage site and that the contract between the government and Sokimex is “irregular” and lacks transparency.

If [ACU head Om Yentieng] does not take legal action and investigate, this means that [Om Yentieng] and Prime Minister Hun Sen are leaders who are as corrupt as [Sokimex] too, it is like a proverb saying ‘a toad selling ringworm medicine’,” the complaint states.

Om Yentieng could not be reached for comment yesterday, but ACU spokesman Keo Remy welcomed the complaint filed by anonymous people and guaranteed that despite the anonymity of the complaint, an investigation would ensue if it was worthy.


“Take action or not take action, normally [we] know [our selves] what to do. I guarantee our work is very good,” he said, declining to comment any further until he had “received and read the complaint himself”.

Cambodian People’s Party senator Sok Kong, also director general of the Sokimex Company, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Bun Narith, general director of APSARA Authority, which oversees conservation efforts at the Angkor Wat temple complex, dismissed the allegations as baseless.

“Law experts prepared the contract and there were also IMF representatives participating in making the contract [between the government and Sokimex],” Bun Narith said.

When asked how much revenue Sok Kong’s company gains per annum from Angkor Wat, Bun Narith declined to comment in detail, but said that in 2011, both shareholders in Sokimex and the government received more than US$40 million.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

"a toad selling ringworm medicine"?? wrong translation of the khmer proverb. it should be "the toad that sells drugs to cure skin diseases".

Anonymous said...

AH Keo Remy. AH CHKAE. You work for the country not for Hun Sen. Why do you always barks without looking into the case first. AH CHKAE

Anonymous said...

AR-CHOY-MRAY sok-kong we going to kill you soon fucker

Anonymous said...

Senators, congresmen of CPP work for their benefit, not for the country. They take salaries, but they don't serve the people propely.

Department of Fine art in Cambodia must act accordingly to prevent India planing to construct a replica of Angkor Wat

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Anonymous said...

"the toad that sells drugs to cure skin diseases."
Should be “ka-ing kuok luok thlam sra-eng”

Anonymous said...

Also file complaint to the UN and International Communities about this Vietnamese Sok Kong and other corrupted CPP officials. Where are the money from International Donors?

Anonymous said...

Vietnamese Sok Kong looks very evil and very criminal. He is a very bad person with no education at all. He was originally from the lazy and mafia society in Vietnam. Now, he is a thief who robbed the billions of dollars for more than three decades. He is a money/wealth hunger and sucker.

Anonymous said...

12:30 AM

If he is lazy and still make billions of dollars, what would that make dirty poor Khmers all over the world??? Yes including the ones serving prison time and on welfare

Anonymous said...

12:44 AM IS A VIETCONG THIEF!!!!

Anonymous said...

TO 12:44 AM: SOK KONG IS A VIETNAMESE THIEF, BUT NOT HARD WORKING IDIOT WHO USED PEOPLE TO DO THE WORK FOR HIM. DO YOU WHO ARE THEY WORKING THIS VIETNAMESE THIEF SOK KONG. DON'T FRAME KHMER PEOPLE ARE DIRTY POOR, BUT MANY VIETNAMESE LIKE YOU (OVER CROWD) POLLUTING EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD AND CAMBODIA. WHY ARE YOU HERE TO STEAL LAND AND PROPERTY LIKE THE VIETNAMESE SOK KONG DID? YOU AND SOK KONG LIKE TO COVER YOUR OWN CRIMINAL FACES. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY KHMER LAND.

Anonymous said...

Hey 1:21 AM: You are the one that had to get the fuck out of your khmer land, or else Pol Pot would have grilled you alive. It was the Vietnamese that work hard to get some life back in Cambodia's ghost town starting in 1979. Look at Cambodia now, it's all foreigners or those with foreign ethnicity who are investing, planning and building your nation left & right. If left alone for you & your Khmer Rouge & your king, There won't even be any ghost left in phnom penh, except for the demons of Pol Pot's gang.

Anonymous said...

To 5:11 AM,

Yes, right. The Vietnamese secret agents toppled Pol Pot during the Killing Fields and those your fucking Vietnamese secret agents/Vietcongs (who could speak and write Khmer very well) had hidden in the jungle behind the Khmer Rouges and your fucking Communist Vietnamese bastards in Hanoi who recruited the young Khmer kids or teenagers in your fucking Communist Vietnam camp and brainwashed. Then your fucking Vietnamese Communist leaders borrowed the hands of those Khmer kids to kill their own people and even their own parents. I was there, you idiot. I am very lucky to be alive with my family. I have been through and escaped my own life with family to west and find the place to stay alive and hide. We heard and saw everything about your fucking Communist idiots who had hidden inside Khmer Rouges and pretended to be Khmer Rouges, who ordered some Khmer Rouges kids below your fucking hidden Communist Vietnamese faces during the Killing Fields. I am sick and tired your fucking lies from your own Hypocrite Vietnam hello. So sick of Evil Vietnamese folks who are the followers of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh including the dumb Khmer bastards like Hun Sen who married to Yuon wife Bun Rany, etc.

You are so confused yourself and never learned and studied about your bad Vietnamese history. Your fucking Vietnamese saved my ass, hell no! Your fucking Communist leaders follow your footstep of your fucking dead and evil Ho Chi Mihn (evil bastard) who you, Vietnamese assholes, followers including brainwashed Khmer kids and adults working side by side with fucking Communist Vietnamese soldiers (who pretended to be nice and sweet in front of gullible Khmer victims and survivors of Killing Fields) and your fucking secret Vietnamese agents form Hanoi who orders the brainwashed Khmer Rouges (not part of Pol Pol and his inner circles) to kill, slaughtered. You should know by now, Hor Nam Hong is former Khmer Rouges Prison chief at Beong Tra Baek and you should know. You are the most stupid person that we have heard of, not knowing anything and saw the cover of the book, but not reading inside the book or even not finding out who were behind the Khmer Rouges and Killing Fields. I have seen in my own eyes and will spread the words out to expose your fucking Communist Vietnamese bastards who lied and used the Khmer Rouges as the scapegoats as the Khmer Rouges killers. There are many Vietnamese folks like you who are still hiding among Khmer society today. If we find out about your Vietnamese secret agent hiding behind us, we are going to destroy them right away and catch and tie up.

Keep lying, bastard (5:11 AM).

Khmer survivor of Killing Fields here living abroad

Anonymous said...

6:36 AM: you are killing me with your horrible grammar and writing structure. Keep hiding, ok! World history has already identified KR killing their own people with solid proof and admission. Khmer on Khmer like black on black violence, ok!

Anonymous said...

All communist leaders were/are
liars.
Adolf Hitler said,"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough,it will be believed".
Joseph Stalin,Mao Tze Tung,and
other communist leaders said as
same as ah Hun Sen.
Look at the symbol of communist flag:
the hammer and sickle.
The hammer used to crush people
and sickle to cut people necks.
Khmer people can not bear guns;
why ?Because Hun Sen is afraid of
Khmer citizens to bring him down.

Two hundred can protest,but not
50,000 people.But one day they will
wake up, stand up, and rise up
against ah Hun Sen and ah Sok Kong too.

Anonymous said...

7:08 AM, You are a Vietnamese who wrote horrible grammar instead. We know you are the one support CPP and you are a very dumb Yuon. LOL

OK!, YOU KNOW!, REALLY!, BLAH, BLAH,...

You have been brainwashed yourself and don't know what you are talking about.

Anonymous said...

DUMB Khmer fighting with each other again. This is why Hun Sen is laughing at us, DUMB Khmer kill each other then accuses each other of YOUN, in the end, Hun Sen is still in power.

DUMB Khmer will always be DUMB.

Anonymous said...

6:36 am

Thank you for telling the truth. Vietnamese communist agents who killed Khmers

Yuon killed khmers. It is true


Khmer abroad

Anonymous said...

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អា ទ្រាង ហ្វាង គី ឯណោះទេអាចោលម្សៀត, កន្តួយម៉ែអាយួនចោរម្រាយ!!!!Fuck you bitch!

Anonymous said...

Khmer Krom people will likely to have a higher standard of living than Khmers in Cambodia. Khmer Krom people are becoming a part of Vietnamese population and gradually will benefit from VN's economic boom in the next 20 years or so. One cannot confidently make such forecast for Khmer people in Cambodia. If you disagree with the above statement, then you will have to give credit the CCP & Hun Sen. Maybe Khmers will be better off in the long run by being annexed. Give it some thought, would you?

Anonymous said...

12:47 PM is bullshit! Time again and again, CPP is Vietnamese's dirty trick and destruction to Khmer people. Khmer Krom people have been oppressed and murdered every day the Vietnamese bastards. It has been the problems with Yuon/Vietnamese leaders and folks over Khmer people for more than two centuries.