Land Project Sees Second Bribery Suspension

A second police official in Ratanakkiri province has been suspended on suspicion that he demanded money from villagers so that their names could be included on a list of people eligible for land titles as part of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s new titling program, police said yesterday. On Sunday, deputy police chief of Som Thom commune in O’Yadaw district, Long Im, was taken in for questioning after 157 ethnic Jarai families living in state forest accused him of extorting 5,000 riel, or about $1.25, from them so that they could be included in the land-titling program. …