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Tuesday 30 November 2010

Senior Cambodian prosecutor arrested by new anti-graft body


Monsters and critics
Nov 30, 2010,

Phnom Penh (DPA)- Officials from Cambodia's fledgling Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) have arrested a senior provincial prosecutor on unspecified charges, national media reported Tuesday.

It marks the first known arrest of a public official by the ACU, which was launched earlier this year to tackle pervasive corruption in public life.

The Cambodia Daily newspaper said Top Chan Sereyvuth, the senior prosecutor in Pursat province, was arrested early Monday.

ACU head Om Yentieng, who led the operation, refused to disclose the grounds on which the prosecutor was being held.

Top Chan Sereyvuth was last year named in media reports as being involved in a long-running land dispute case that was mysteriously moved to his court in Pursat from another province where he had previously worked as a judge.

The head of an organization that was contesting the land told media at the time that Top Chan Sereyvuth was to receive 2 hectares of land once the case was resolved.

Global graft monitor Transparency International ranks Cambodia among the world's most corrupt nations.

It took the government 15 years to promulgate an anti-corruption law, whose eventual passage followed years of pleading from donors who annually give hundreds of millions of dollars.

One recent survey found that Cambodians regard the judiciary as the most corrupt institution in the country.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

HUN SEN WILL BE NEXT

Anonymous said...

I am doubtful if this is a genuine case of corruption or because this prosecutor had a land dispute with a more powerful person or because he is trying to crackdown on corruption himself. According to the Khmer article,he and his brother-in-law, who is a forestry official, had taken some measures to crack down on corrupt officials who illegally log and destroy the country's forest. And the way he was arrested was very unusual, like a robbery. he and his bodyguard was about to drive out of the gate of his house when two or four cars drive with high speed and blocked his car from all direction, handcuffed them and took them away to an unknown location in high speed. In a normal corruption case, the authority must have arrest warrant from the court, show it to the man and invited him to come to the police station. I applaud his arrest if he is real corrupt, but I worry he was arrested because he dare to expose corrupt officials or try to take on corrupt officials.

Anonymous said...

My thought this is a cover up of koh pic tragedy to make people impress of the goverment and fogget about koh pich news!! why so quick?