Tax Boss may face Prison Sentence in Australia

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Tax Boss may face Prison Sentence in Australia

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Cambodian tax boss faces jail over Aussie residency claims
Ahead of Cambodia’s election, questions are being asked about how Kong Vibol made his fortune.
Updated 1 hour ago
By Ian Lloyd Neubauer in Sihanoukville

The head of Cambodia's tax department is staring down the barrel of a potential two-year prison sentence and a $21,000 fine for allegedly falsely claiming he is a resident of Australia.

Kong Vibol, the director general of Cambodia's General Department of Taxation, claimed he was a resident of the Melbourne suburb of Noble Park in 2011 when he registered Panhariddh Pty Ltd, a private company that owns millions of dollars worth of real estate in Australia.

According to Australia’s Corporations Act, a private company must have at least one director and that director “must ordinarily reside in Australia”. But Mr Kong resides in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/cambodian-t ... ncy-claims
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Fake news he's not charged and did he even receive a cease and desist?

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It doesn't say he was charged, so it's not fake news. It's a headline to capture interest and poses a possibility using words that can be interpreted different ways.
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It says he may face prison sentence but that's bullshit because to face prison you need to be charged and before even getting that far you get angry letters from different departments. The tax man has lots of time to sort this out and stay out of jail. At best a criminal prosecution is many years away regardless of some journalist interpretation of the law. To publish this type of speculation now is election propaganda plain and simple.

Did you notice that nobody in the legal know was quoted in the article? Lawyers, prosecutors, judges, where are they? Nada, zlich, nil. Instead we should believe the drunken speculation of "Ian Lloyd Neubauer in Sihanoukville".

"It's a headline to capture interest", that's called a clickbait and is a common trait of fake news outlets such as Some BullShit.
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If he was in the UK he would get Knighted,
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The piece seems to be largely based on the Al-Jazeera report. AJ usually gets its facts right.

As for fake news: Could "fax" tells how he learned that the SBS guy was drunk? If not, why don't you take your vitriol somewhere else?
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Pizzalover wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:56 pm As for fake news: Could "fax" tells how he learned that the SBS guy was drunk? If not, why don't you take your vitriol somewhere else?
A quick search reveals that Ian Neubauer has been in and out of Cambodia since 2004 as a journalist and photojournalist. He was formerly with Cambodia Daily who paid him to write articles about pedos and other exciting things in Sihanoukville where Neubauer appears to be have been based throughout his entire time in Cambodia.

As a former journalist of the Cambodia Daily, the newspaper that decided to shut down instead of paying taxes, Neubauer is now re-phrasing work already made by Al Jazeera and spinning into propaganda fitting the political views of his employers.

Enter the author's name into a search engine. The author is a bogan in Sihanoukville and previously employed by the Cambodia Daily and now writing sham articles about the head of tax. Unlike fake news outlets, fax does his research and only posts facts.

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/author/ian-neubauer/
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"The piece seems to be largely based on the Al-Jazeera report. AJ usually gets its facts right."

ha ha very funny.

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Well sure looks like fax has got the "facts" on this one. It does seem like bar talk, so not an unfair assumption that the S-ville based journo was at whatever watering hole is left there when writing it, gotta get the wifi somewhere I guess. :beer2:
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Ok guys, good that you had a laugh and applause from my side. Now: Stop playing and get out of the sand box - time to reveal your superior knowledge about the faults of the AJ story. Still dont know why the SBS writer was said to be drunk. So much about facts and unsubstantiated blurbs.

AJ is generally very good. Alone the Qatar-Turkey alliance has left a pretty bad dent in their Turkey reporting. The AJ guys I met on the ground have so far been all pretty good. My professional opinion, i work in a related field.
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