ACU Says ‘Ghost’ Workers ‘Eliminated’

[geovalin]

Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) president Om Yentieng said the government watchdog had eliminated 80 percent of the so-called “ghost officials” – government administrators and officers collecting salaries for co-workers who either do not exist or are not doing their assigned jobs. After a ceremony commemorating International Anti-Corruption Day on Friday, Mr. Yentieng told reporters the government campaign to rid itself of “ghost officials” that started in 2012 had led to the “elimination” of corrupt officials who did not come to work, took their salaries and “cheated the state.”
 

He did not elaborate on the 80 percent statistic or what it was based on. He said law enforcement, in addition to pay raises for low-paid government officials, helped the ACU clear out bureaucrats collecting paychecks from the government while not working.
 

Those who had participated in the scam did not dare to do it again and corrupt government officials who did had been arrested and convicted, he said. “I arrested a few of them and [sent them] to the court,” he said. “The government has agreed to change to a new system.

 

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[Honthy]

So that means that a lot of positions  are open for another ghost workers