Cable shows cartel’s reach
A sex-trafficking network that included “high-ranking” government officials and had infiltrated Cambodian law enforcement agencies and NGOs for years worked to cover up Vietnamese sex rings and collect payoffs from illegal prostitution establishments in Phnom Penh. However, four years after a court finally convicted the police official at the network’s head, the same man still works as a high-ranking official in the Phnom Penh Municipal Police. The group was first revealed when several of its members were convicted in 2011. But a confidential US State Department cable obtained by the Post under a Freedom of Information Act request and interviews with top anti-trafficking officials and a senior member of the organisation have shed new light on the reach of this cartel. …
Daniel Pye, Taing Vida and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cable-shows-cartels-reach
