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Thursday 7 November 2013

In Graft Case, Another Cambodian-Born Servicemen Faces US Courts

U.S. navy officer Michael "Vannak Khem" Misiewicz becomes emotional as he embraces his aunt Samrith Sokha, 72, at Cambodian coastal international sea port of Sihanoukville, file photo.
U.S. navy officer Michael "Vannak Khem" Misiewicz becomes emotional as he embraces his aunt Samrith Sokha, 72, at Cambodian coastal international sea port of Sihanoukville, file photo.

Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer 07 November 2013 

WASHINGTON DC - A Cambodian-born US naval commander is facing criminal charges for passing key information to a Malaysian defense contractor, in an ongoing scandal that has put US defense officials on edge.

Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz is facing federal charges in a San Diego court, making him the second Cambodian-born serviceman to face courts over military misconduct in recent years.

The second, Seivirak Inson, as US military intelligence officer, is serving time in prison for allegedly selling US secrets to the Cambodian military.

Cambodian-Americans in the US say such charges, and the media attention they garner, are regretful, but they do hold lessons about the US and its approach to bribery and scandals, even for high-ranking military personnel.

“An individual, whether Cambodian-American or other national, they will be punished if they violate the law,” said Schanley Kuch, an independent political analyst who lives in Maryland, told VOA Khmer.


Misiewicz is accused of passing confidential information on ship routes to a Singaporean company, where they were subject to inflated costs and other graft schemes, in exchange for gifts and favors.

Declining to comment on this case specifically, Samuel Locklear, a US naval commander for the Pacific Command, told VOA Khmer such cases are troubling in general and must be closely examined.

“The aspects of counterintelligence are, in a military organization, are always troubling and always have to be assessed as they occur,” he said. “In all of our countries, we all work very hard to ensure that the impacts of these types of things are limited.”

Seivirak Inson, meanwhile, is serving 10 years in prison for allegedly selling secrets to Cambodia.

“After he finishes his time in prison, he will be dismissed from the Army,” Jeffrey Pool, a military spokesman at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, said.

Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh denied having US documents. “I do not have it,” he said. “I don’t know about this information.”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dam, now Khmers are best known for graft wherever they stay and work. Khmer race must have evil in their blood.

Anonymous said...

Wrong!
Khmer were victimized by Chen &yuon as always....Here why:-)
Chen set up all this spy-game through its clan-Cpp to ruins these guys career and life.Khmer were not graft wherever they lived/worked.Khmer were curse by association with the mother of all EVIL Chen &yuon.Hun sen doesn't know what to do with those secrets because he can read data,don't know what do with it,only evil Chen &yuon wants those [INFO] secrets data thru Cpp Hun sen.Therefore,these who U.S officers were victimized by Chen +yuon +Hun sen. Hun sen just a retarded's dog to serves his two masters above regardless of who affect by his action,in this case the decendant of Khmer Maj Sreivirak and Vannak plus United states were victimized by Chen +yuon +Hun! avoid contact with these contagious germs called Chen/Yuon/Cpp at all cost....

Kmenhwatt

Anonymous said...

Corruption is in their blood.