Cambodia Daily offered bribe to delete article.
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Cambodia Daily offered bribe to delete article.
The "Kith Meng firm" here is 'Ang and Associates Lawyers', a subsidiary of the giant Royal group owned by Kith Meng, a close associate of the PM.
Kith Meng Firm Offers Bribe to Delete Article
April 4, 2017
A representative of a Royal Group subsidiary whose trucks were seized by authorities last week for allegedly attempting to smuggle timber to Vietnam denied any wrongdoing on Monday and offered to pay reporters to remove an article about the seizure from The Cambodia Daily website.
On Sunday, government officials said authorities in Tbong Khmum province had seized a pair of timber-loaded trucks two days earlier that were preparing to enter Vietnam, in breach of a ban in January last year on all timber exports to the country...
Mr. Seng, the Ang and Associates representative, said his firm was in talks with customs officials to get the trucks and timber released and offered to pay The Cambodia Daily to remove Monday’s story from its website.
“I want you to remove this information from the website and I will give you some money,” Mr. Seng said. “Please talk to your editor about how much money he needs and I will offer the amount he wants to stop publishing the story.”
“I would like to ask you to delete the information from your website because the company doesn’t want this information to spread,” he said...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kith ... le-127487/
The article in question, where the truck drivers contradict the official story:
Kith Meng Firm’s Wood Seized Near Border
Kith Meng Firm Offers Bribe to Delete Article
April 4, 2017
A representative of a Royal Group subsidiary whose trucks were seized by authorities last week for allegedly attempting to smuggle timber to Vietnam denied any wrongdoing on Monday and offered to pay reporters to remove an article about the seizure from The Cambodia Daily website.
On Sunday, government officials said authorities in Tbong Khmum province had seized a pair of timber-loaded trucks two days earlier that were preparing to enter Vietnam, in breach of a ban in January last year on all timber exports to the country...
Mr. Seng, the Ang and Associates representative, said his firm was in talks with customs officials to get the trucks and timber released and offered to pay The Cambodia Daily to remove Monday’s story from its website.
“I want you to remove this information from the website and I will give you some money,” Mr. Seng said. “Please talk to your editor about how much money he needs and I will offer the amount he wants to stop publishing the story.”
“I would like to ask you to delete the information from your website because the company doesn’t want this information to spread,” he said...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kith ... le-127487/
The article in question, where the truck drivers contradict the official story:
Kith Meng Firm’s Wood Seized Near Border
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kith ... er-127418/“The prosecutor ordered provincial military police to stop the trucks because they were preparing to cross the border,” he said. “The drivers told customs officials that they were transporting wood for Ang and Associates and that the wood was going to Vietnam.”
Though the government has hailed its timber export ban as a success, Vietnamese customs data obtained by the U.S. NGO Forestry Trends indicate that large volumes of timber have continued to pour across the border. According to the organization’s data, Cambodia exported more than 310,000 cubic meters of logs and sawn wood to Vietnam last year worth a combined $181 million.
Mr. Meng’s companies have also been dogged by allegations from NGOs and residents in Stung Treng of using the dam reservoir to launder wood being logged illegally outside the permitted area.
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Re: Cambodia Daily offered bribe to delete article.
Good job for once Daily.
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Re: Cambodia Daily offered bribe to delete article.
They are all into this together, aren't they.Kith Meng, a close associate of the PM.
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