WEDNESDAY, 19 JANUARY 2011
By VONG SOKHENG
Phnom Penh Post
Defence Minister Tea Banh (pictured) has announced that high-ranking officials in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces will be required to submit asset declarations to the government’s Anticorruption Unit next month.
“We can’t now say how many members of the RCAF will be required to make an asset declaration, but individual military officials who were appointed by royal decree and subdecree will be required to declare their assets,” Tea Banh said at an annual military review at the Royal Cambodian Navy headquarters on Tuesday.
Under new anticorruption legislation passed in March, senior officials will be required to declare their personal assets by February 28, part of a bid to fight endemic levels of graft.
Nhem Ponharith, spokesman for the Human Rights Party, said that unofficial estimates indicate there are about 1,000 high-ranking officials in the RCAF.
“We have never received an official number of appointed generals in the Ministry of Defence,” he said.
A senior military official, who declined to be named, also put the number of colonels and generals at about 1,000.
Sar Sambath, a permanent member of the ACU, said today that the unit had increased the estimated number of senior government officials required to submit asset declarations from 100,000 to about 150,000.
“Our proceedings of asset declarations are going smoothly and our teams are working hard to ensure that the asset declaration package is managed safely and properly,” he said.
“The ACU continues to conduct workshops with government ministries about the anticorruption law.”
On Tuesday, Tea Banh also appealed to senior RCAF officials to abstain from illegal activities such as human and drug trafficking.
“The RCAF has to get away from corruption,” he said.
The comments were made after the arrests last week of Moek Dara, the former secretary general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, and Chea Leng, former chief of the anti-drug office at the Ministry of Interior.
The pair were implicated by former Banteay Meanchey provincial police chief Hun Hean and his deputy, Chheang Sun, who were arrested earlier last week.
4 comments:
Its good new! This is why new corruption Law created?! I would to see all cambodian live under the LAW! No body live above the LAW! No matter who you are! LAW must be obey, Otherwise this country will destroy like in the past...again and again! Those high ranking govts officials family are the most corrupted people in the country, they used power of their family to abused, threaten other...All of these thing must clean up, inorder for the country to become prosperity!
All people must lived under the LAW! No body above the LAW! Cambodia's corruption leads the country to the black hole of HELL!! If cambodia can clean up all corruptions, corrupted officials, our country will be prosperity and strong just like other country, and we will become the civilized country....This what i had dream about!!
Corruption only destroying country and torn country apart! Cambodia is the worst corrupted country in the world...This is happening back to old century, when Khmer's Royal king family has conflict with one another, they never get along within each other, and alway fighting, jealousy, corruption, cambodia never have peace, beacuse crooked people and corrupted people went to the neighbors country to ask for help destroying your own family and your own home? Neighbors country saw advantage, they keep robbing and stealing, encroaching everytime! Khmer must woke up and stop all corrupted people immediately........!!!!! Beofore its too late!!!
It's good news, but the application of the laws remain to be seen. I hope the anti-corruption laws are used for cleaning corruption, not used to victimize and to purge Hun Sen's opponents.
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