Stop seeking extra fees for border stamps, says Kheng

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Minister of Interior Sar Kheng on Sunday ordered all provincial authorities, especially immigration police officers posted at border crossings to stop asking for extra fees from Cambodian workers and business people to receive border permission stamps. The order applies to all international border checkpoints with neighbouring countries, especially at the Poipet border with Thailand.

 

Kheng also warned immigration police officers who violate his orders will be punished or fired from their jobs. He said that if border officers take fees from Cambodian workers and traders, some of whom cross the border daily to work at nearby markets in Thailand, then their livelihoods will suffer because they are forced to spend money unnecessarily for their travel.

 

Kheng noted that informal fees taken from workers or other people crossing the border does not impact the state budget. The malfeasance of the officers is reproachable especially because they pocket the fees of those crossing the border.

 

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