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Thecambodiadaily All the News Without Fear or Favor The Cambodia daily Volume 64 issue 34 Wednesday, April 27, 2016 2,000 riel/50 cents Corruption Czar’s Sons Appointed as Assistants By khy sOvuthy And ZsOmBOr Peter the cambodia daily Two sons of anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) Chairman Om Yentieng have been appointed as assistants to the government graft-fighting body, sparking accusations of nepo- tism within the very institution meant to stamp out such practices. a royal decree signed by King norodom Sihamoni on Saturday names Yentieng Puthira and Yen- tieng Puthirith as two of eighteen new assistants assigned to the aCU, with ranks equal to undersecretary and secretary of state, respectively, effective immediately. The appointments were request - Samrang Pring/Reuters ed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who A man works at a dried up pond in the drought-hit Kandal province yesterday. (Story page 5) on Friday also signed off on a sepa- rate sub-decree assigning six lower- ranking assistants to the unit. Mr. Yentieng declined to speak Philippine Militants Behead Canadian Captive with a reporter yesterday, and aCU spokesman Keo Remy could ReUteRS ered head was found on a remote meeting. not be reached. nov Ra, an official KananaSKiS, alberta/Manila - Ca - island late on Monday, around five “The government of Canada is in the prime minister’s cabinet, na dian Prime Minister Justin Tru - hours after the expiry of a ransom committed to working with the gov- refer red a request for comment deau condemned on Monday the deadline set by militants who had ernment of the Philippines and in- back to the aCU. execution of a Canadian hostage threatened to execute one of four ternational partners to pursue those Top Sam, the chairman of the na- by abu Sayyaf militants in the Phil - captives. responsible for this heinous act,” he tional anti-Corruption Council, which ippines, calling it “an act of cold- “Canada condemns without res - added. oversees the aCU, would not dis- blooded murder.” ervation the brutality of the hostage- Trudeau declined to respond cuss the appointment of Mr. Yen- John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining takers and this unnecessary death. when asked whether the Canadian tieng’s sons but defended the ap - executive, was captured by islamist This was an act of cold-blooded mur - government had tried to negotiate pointment of assistants in general. militants along with three other peo- der, and responsibility rests squarely with the captors or pay a ransom, “Please look at all the units. it is ple in September 2015 while on va- with the terrorist group who took or whether it was trying to secure not only the anti-Corruption Unit that cation on a Philippine island. him hostage,” Trudeau told repor - the release of the other Canadian makes appointments. Other units The Philippine army said a sev- ters on the sidelines of a Cabinet Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 Amid Sokha Probe, Maimed Starlet Speaks Out By Alex Willemyns on her face, neck, back, chest and quiry into deputy opposition leader And sek OdOm wrists melted. Doctors had to re - Kem Sokha’s alleged extramarital the cambodia daily move her ears, and the music vi deo affairs, with anti-terrorism police in- Feeding rice porridge to her star could not talk for months after. vestigating, an opposition official ar- young niece outside Phnom Penh’s Police never executed an arrest rested and the case already in the Olympic Market in 1999, Tat Ma- warrant for the wife, Khoun So phal, courts. rina, then the 15-year-old mistress and Mr. Sitha—who in 2009 The attentiveness by authorities of CPP official Svay Sitha, was claimed to have been a victim in the in Mr. Sokha’s case has not passed dragged to the ground by the offi- case—was later promoted from un- unnoticed by Ms. Marina, who said cial’s wife, who then poured a liter dersecretary of state at the Coun cil in a message on Monday night that Police Attempt to Stop of flesh-eating nitric acid on her. of Ministers to secretary of state, she wished authorities had carried Screening of Banned Film The savage act of revenge carried where he remains today. out such a thorough investigations Page 4 out in broad daylight left Ms. Ma- Such undisguised impunity stands into the attack that left 40 percent cambodiadaily.com rina’s lips burned to blisters; the skin in stark contrast to the recent in- Continued on page 7 មានដំណឹងបែែសមែួលជាភាសាខ្មែរនៅខាងក្នុង The Daily Newspaper of Record Since 1993 2 The Cambodia daily wedneSday, aPRil 27, 2016 ANd AlSo NEWSMAKERS Dentist Terrifies Elderly French n The music of Prince soared to the top of the weekly U.S. Billboard ReUteRS as eight teeth pulled out in one sit- 200 album chart on Monday after the singer’s sudden death last week, a Dutchman dubbed the “horror ting, infections and bills in the tens as mourning fans rushed to remember the artist’s legacy through his dentist” by French media was sen- of thousands of dollars. music. nielsen Music said Monday it had tracked 2.3 million song sales tenced to eight years in jail yester- “This is a massive relief. We must and more than 579,000 album sales from Prince’s catalog in the three day for mutilating patients’ mouths be very careful from now on when days following the news of his unexpected death at age 57 at his Min- and defrauding state social security we get practitioners from abroad,” nesota estate on Thursday. album sales were led by “The Very Best of services. said nicole Martin, the head of a Prince,” a 2001 compilation of the R&B artist’s hits including “Purple Rain” and “Kiss,” which sold more than 250,000 copies in the three The verdict was delivered by a group of patients who took legal ac- days. The compilation topped the Billboard 200 album chart, which court in nevers, in central France, tion against Mark Van nierop, who measures weekly music sales. On the Digital Songs chart, “Purple where local media relayed gory had fled to Canada to escape prose- Rain” led five Prince songs in the top 10, which measures sales of online tales, some from old-aged pension- cution but was extradited back to song downloads. (Reuters) ers who spoke of having as many France to face trial. “it is not nepotism,” he said. “it San Chey, country director for ident of the CnRP, the public is Sons... can only be nepotism if the people the affiliated network for Social looking purposefully into the aCU; who are appointed have no knowl- accountability, a good governance they are looking at it very carefully.” cOntinued frOm PAge 1 edge. But [Mr. Yentieng’s sons] advocacy group, said their latest ap- Kem ley, whose Khmer for make appointments, too,” he said, have the ability to do the work.” pointments would certainly dam - Khmer network advocates for a be fore hanging up on a reporter. The royal decree appointing Mr. age the aCU’s image, especially more democratic and transparent CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Yentieng’s scions to his own unit amid a shakeup of the prime min- government, said the aCU had a it was only natural for the ruling does not describe their qualifica- ister’s cabinet. moral obligation, if not a legal duty, par ty to appoint the children of its tions for the jobs or what aspects “it is not a good picture for the to be more open about the qualifica- own members. of corruption they will be advising anti-Corruption Unit now while the tions of its staff. “it is normal,” Mr. Eysan said of their father on. other ministries are under reform He said the appointment of Mr. the appointment of Mr. Yentieng’s The brothers have apparently and while [Mr. Yentieng] gives ad- Yentieng’s sons would only deep - sons. been riding on their father’s coat- vice to the other ministries,” he said. en an already entrenched impres- “The CPP is the ruling party and tails for years. “it is a kind of nepotism.” sion of nepotism and corruption has never appointed the children of according to a 2009 U.S. State Mr. Chey said the appointments within the CPP and of a govern- the CnRP,” he said. “The CPP must De partment cable released by the also had to be considered against ment in which familial connections appoint the youth of the CPP be- anti-secrecy organization Wikileaks, the backdrop of a high-profile aCU trump formal qualifications. cause we cannot appoint the youth Mr. Puthira and Mr. Puthirith, rank- investigation into CnRP Vice Presi- “Even if they are highly qualified, of another party.” ing officers in the Royal Cambo- dent Kem Sokha that looks to many they cannot find a job if they do not The spokesman’s comments dian armed Forces, are both de- like a politically motivated attack on have the right bloodline,” he said. amount to an admission of political partment directors for the national the opposition. “This has become the culture of discrimination. But he denied any Counter-Terrorism Committee. The “The public may decrease their nepotism, and the family institu- hint of nepotism and rejected the same cable names Mr. Yentieng as trust in the aCU,” he said of the ap- tions have been hardening within suggestion that the appointments a deputy director of the committee’s pointments. “Especially now that the current mandate. it is one kind might sully the aCU’s image.
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