Civil servants’ bosses told to halt skimming
Civil servants including police officers in a supervisory role who cut into their subordinates’ salaries will face consequences including criminal charges, Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced last week.
In an order obtained by the Post yesterday, Kheng urged civil servants who handle payroll to immediately report to the Ministry of Interior anytime their employer takes money from employees’ pay – including in cases where the money is ostensibly going toward charity or humanitarian organisations.
The ministry will implement anything from administrative discipline to charging a defendant in court, Kheng’s decree states. …
But greasing palms – sometimes using the salaries of lower-ranking employees to do so – has become so endemic in Cambodia’s public sector, that Kao Poeun, president of the Cambodian Independent Civil Servants Association, doubts the order can be implemented.
Bribery and turning blind eyes to corruption – or actively participating in it – have been blighting public servants for years, Poeun said. …
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-servants%E2%80%99-bosses-told-halt-skimming
