Ex-Corruption Cop Busted for Corruption by ACU

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AndyKK wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:17 am Looks like he was extorting the extorters, if that's the case some may call him a Robin Hood.
Robin Hoods don't keep the money for themselves.
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Drop in the ocean.
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:11 pm Drop in the ocean.
Seems a bit harsh
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Pseudonomdeplume wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:49 pm
Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:11 pm Drop in the ocean.
Seems a bit harsh
I didn't mean for the ACU in particular, but the country in general. It consistently scores at the bottom of the corruption list (157th position last year) for a reason! https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021/index/khm

Most trips to a Kahn/Sangkat involve bribery of some sort (even those with a "one stop window" program), and many ministries have various forms of graft/nepotism clearly present. Then there are ministers who put their children in expensive private schools, public servants with outrageously expensive cars, conflicts of interest, shady lack of transparency in some government deals and so forth. The fact that a guy at the ACU was in on it for his piece of the pie isn't that surprising, given the huge amount of power he likely had on people he could threaten to "shut down". I sincerely applaud them for catching him and things have definitely gotten better over the past twenty years (at least in people's daily lives/encounters with civil servants: the recent driver's license renewal offices being an example), but there's still a long way to go was my point.
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:55 pm
Pseudonomdeplume wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:49 pm
Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:11 pm Drop in the ocean.
Seems a bit harsh
I didn't mean for the ACU in particular, but the country in general. It consistently scores at the bottom of the corruption list (157th position last year) for a reason! https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021/index/khm

Most trips to a Kahn/Sangkat involve bribery of some sort (even those with a "one stop window" program), and many ministries have various forms of graft/nepotism clearly present. Then there are ministers who put their children in expensive private schools, public servants with outrageously expensive cars, conflicts of interest, shady lack of transparency in some government deals and so forth. The fact that a guy at the ACU was in on it for his piece of the pie isn't that surprising, given the huge amount of power he likely had on people he could threaten to "shut down". I sincerely applaud them for catching him and things have definitely gotten better over the past twenty years (at least in people's daily lives/encounters with civil servants: the recent driver's license renewal offices being an example), but there's still a long way to go was my point.
Only Venezuela is below it on the list; not all activity is reported, evidently.

So, you are correct sir, and we are in agreeance. But I meant, as a punishment, it was a bit harsh :D
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