Condensed from “Cambodia Fails to Advance on Int'l Graft Index,” copyright Lucy Jordan of the Cambodia Daily, published Oct. 27, 2010. All text below is copyright Jordan/the Cambodia Daily.
Despite passing a long-anticipated anticorruption law in march, Cambodia has made no improvement this year in its perceived level of corruption, according to an annual ranking of countries by Transparency International that maintained Cambodia's position among the world's most corrupt states.
“I acknowledge there is corruption, but is it not serious like this,” said Cambodian senator and businessman Mong Reththy. He explained that some businessmen offered informal payments to some governmental institutions to speed up their investment process.
“I don't want to accuse this act as corruption, but it's the way to facilitate” trade, he said.
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