Jamie Elliott

Millions of dollars of aid money granted to Cambodia by the Global Fund to combat malaria have been left sitting in a bank account for more than a year, official documents seen by the Post show.

The money remains untouched because the National Malaria Centre (CNM) is refusing to sign a funding agreement for a $12 million Global Fund grant it could have accessed since July because it objects to a request to provide detailed accounts of the spending, a source close to the Global Fund in Cambodia said, a move that could potentially put thousands of lives at risk.

The source said that the CNM had spent virtually none of a separate $9 million grant it has been entitled to use since August 2014, which was awarded as part of an urgent initiative to combat drug-resistant malaria in the Mekong region, a claim backed up by documentation.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/malaria-money-sits-idle-0

Did the interest on the moneyget spent /siphoned

I'll take the money and not tell you what happens with it! And I am not Cambodian!

But seriously, why did the Global Fund hand over the money before the funding agreement was signed?

Wish I could be rich and silly same same as them