BoogieBoogieBoy wrote:Lucky Lucan wrote:So I gather you're going to have to come over this way to sort this misunderstanding out? Like to meet up with the ACU etc?
You'll have a pretty hard job convincing anyone that the CNVLD didn't have major positive results here on a shoe-string budget while they operated. Your petty accusations won't change anything.
I don't need to come over but will soon, I hope. A very helpful local team with excellent ACU and NGO contacts is arranging to have Mr Christopher Julian Minko put on the ACU watch-list which will make visa renewal challenging. Regrettably, as money is involved, this may also attract attention of those attempting a shake-down for bribes. I hope not.
And if you seriously think that faking an NGO board to solicit donor funds is OK then you live in a different world to me. It's self-aggrandizing, dishonest people like this who give Cambodian NGOs a bad reputation.
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Are you making all this up?
The ACU only deals with corruption allegations against or involving
PUBLIC officials. There's no so-called "watch-list" of private individuals.
Mismanagement, frauds, embezzlement in private organizations and entities don't fall under its mandate and competency.
These are criminal or civil matters for the courts.
The ACU dismissed a complaint brought by a local NGO (itself mired in mismanagement practices) against an international donor because it's not its business.
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu- ... id-110404/
Mr. Boreth’s complaint accuses ActionAid of misusing $3 million and spending part of it on “projects against the Cambodian government,” including political protests and training in human rights, ACU Chairman Om Yentieng said during a meeting at the unit’s Phnom Penh headquarters on Thursday.
He said, however, that the complaint did not fall under the ACU’s jurisdiction because it did not involve allegations against a government official or body.
“It’s not corruption, but it’s embezzlement,” he said, adding that donors to ActionAid were free to file a court complaint if they believed that funds had been misused.