Anti-corruption Unit Head, Om Yentieng, led police to arrest a Pursat provincial prosecutor, Top Chan Sereyvuth, and two bodyguards at his home. Thong Ol, director of the provincial court, was quoted by the Post as saying that the Anticorruption Unit had detained Top Chan Sereyvuth and the two bodyguards for questioning. He declined to comment [...]
The corruption is spreading across Cambodia’s court system in Cambodia. Most of Cambodian people feel afraid of the court. They do not hope that the court would serve the common people with fair and justice and they also lost confidence in court. Recently, the owner of Cobra III Guesthouse and Restaurant in Banbambang province filed [...]
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday lambasted the country’s new anti-corruption law as a sham, saying those who commit graft in the country will never be jailed for it. The law, which took 15 years to draft and less than a week to approve, will not have the teeth necessary to rein in Cambodia’s rampant [...]
In order to combat against the widespread national corruption issues in Cambodia, on Wednesday the United States of America provided training to 62 Cambodian officials to curb corruption. Om Yentieng, the Head of the Anticorruption Unit, and a senior government adviser, said that the three-day training will “really influence a change to the quality of [...]
The long-awaited anticorruption draft law will be debated on December 11, 2009 after Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen order Council of Ministers to announce officially on Friday last week. The primer chose the December 11 weekly meeting for consideration of the anti-graft draft law, which if approved, will head to the National Assembly for a [...]