ACU Threatens to Disclose Alleged Opposition Corruption

The chairman of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) threatened to reveal secret information connected to corruption cases involving opposition party leaders after Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) President Sam Rainsy criticized the unit yesterday for promising to investigate allegedly unknown sources of CNRP Deputy President Kem Sokha’s wealth.

The ACU announced last week that it had determined alleged recordings of Mr. Sokha speaking to a mistress did in fact feature the deputy president’s voice. The discovery prompted the ACU to start investigating a complaint submitted by a youth group accusing Mr. Sokha of corruption, a move that will lead the unit to open three of Mr. Sokha’s previously sealed asset declarations.

Mr. Rainsy criticized the ACU in a Facebook post yesterday, saying the investigation was illegitimate, as Mr. Sokha’s assets were a private matter rather than one for government intervention. Only members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) could be guilty of government corruption, Mr. Rainsy added.

“Only officials from the ruling CPP can be involved in government corruption because the ACU is talking about an abuse of power. Since the CNRP is in the opposition and has no government power, it cannot be involved in government corruption,” Mr. Rainsy wrote.

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