Chief of Siem Reap Provincial Economic Police Accused of Collecting Illegal Money

[CEOCambodiaNews]

Cambodia News, (Siem Reap): Small businessmen in Siem Reap province have alleged that Colonel Chrin Kimny, as the director of the Siem Reap Provincial Office of Economic Crimes, has assigned four agents to collect money from people trafficking goods, forest crimes, illegal timber stockpiling, and mining excavation businesses.

Mr. Chrin Kimny is said to order his aides to crack down on the business of transporting illegal timber and unregulated goods in order to collect money from the traders who transport illegal timber and other goods on National Road 6 and National Road 67, which is a cool source of income.

Entrepreneurs digging for land or plowing land for sale have also expressed dissatisfaction with the economic police activities, which require them to pay a high level of money to avoid disruption in business.


According to a source from the land transport business, Mr. Chrin Kimny extended his hand to Mr. Sok Phirum, Deputy Director of the Office of Resource Planning to deploy his assistants to inspect the location of pits, especially at the excavation sites, in order to receive money allowing the excavators to transport the land without interruption by the authorities.

Those businessmen who do not want to pay up encounter all kinds of difficulties over business laws and truck inspections. The economic police have threatened to suspend the digging of farmland, sell the land and seize the machinery. The owners of the excavation site have demanded that Brigadier General Mak Theara, Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Economic Crimes Office of the Siem Reap Provincial Police, review the inactivity of Mr. Chrin Kimny.
- Arey News

[Stiliko]

There’s an art to extortion. You have to know how far to push things. Too far and they blow up in your face.

A good little racket all gone to hell now and some nasty public exposure to deal with. It’s gonna cost big time to patch things up, don’t you think?

[ssian]

Yes and soon they will come up with different types of permit which costs huge bombs or huge fines for not having the different 'types' of permits in place.