Anti-Corruption Unit seeks response over Information Ministry complaint
The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit has sent a letter to the Ministry of Information asking it to respond to allegations that its officials demanded bribes to let applicants pass exams for jobs in the ministry, a letter published on the ACU’s website reveals. ACU President Om Yentieng’s June 10 letter, posted yesterday alongside Information Minister Khieu Kanharith’s subsequent denial of the bribe claims, says that in May the ACU received a complaint from civil servants within the ministry against Undersecretary of State Norng Beoun and other officials. … The complaint follows a similar allegation, which the ACU announced it was investigating in April, that Forestry Administration officials were demanding bribes of up to $5,000 from each student seeking to pass the administration’s entrance exams.
