Land Project Sees Second Bribery Suspension

11 July 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Anti-corruption / Crime and law enforcement / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Government / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Social development
ethnic Jarai families / Hun Sen / Jarai / Khmer riel / Land titles / Long Im / Money / new titling program / O’Yadaw district / police official / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Ratanakkiri Province / Som Thom commune / state forest / titling program / villagers

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. …