Cambodia: Calls for corruption investigation

A thorough investigation must be made into corruption allegations against Cambodian officials at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, a New York-based legal group said.

However, Helen Jarvis, a spokeswoman for the tribunal – officially known as Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia – hit back, calling the allegations from the Open Society Justice Initiative, or OSJI, “unsubstantiated".

There are “serious allegations that Cambodian court personnel, including judges, must kick back a significant percentage of their wages to Cambodian government officials in exchange for their positions on the court,” the law group said in a statement received today.