Bail granted for disgraced officials
Four officials from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction arrested last week on bribery charges involving millions of dollars would be freed on bail in the next few days, officials said yesterday. Kuy Bunson, director of the Ministry of Interior’s prisons department, said he had received a letter from Phnom Penh Municipal Court asking him to release the foursome, but had not yet looked at it and declined to comment in detail. … The suspects – Sa Reth Boramy, deputy director of the land management department; Pho Vuthy and Tuy Lay Rithy, director and deputy director of the finance department; and Meas Ey Sara, finance office chief – were arrested last Monday by the Anti-Corruption Unit for allegedly obtaining US$2 million in bribes for social land concessions. …
