Anti-graft chief says probe into health ministry in ‘final stage’
The head of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Wednesday that he would send officials to Singapore today for the “final stage” of an investigation into corruption within the Health Ministry, first revealed in a probe made public in November last year by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. … More than $350,000 in bribes was paid to Duong Socheat, who retired as a director at the CNM in 2011, and about $60,000 to his deputy, according to the report, which said Swiss firm Vestergaard Frandsen and Sumitomo Chemical Singapore made illicit payments to the officials to secure Global Fund contracts. …
