More than $100,000 ‘used’ in ECCC review?
I felt extremely surprised reading a sentence that says more than $ 100,000 wasted in ECCC review.
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal/ECCC has recently held a press conference to disseminate the results of a special audit on corruption allegations in the Khmer Rouge tribunal. The audit claimed that there has been no fault like what it has been accused of.
Jo Scheuer, UNDP’s country director said that in late February 2008, UNDP hired an independent audit group to review the human resource management [in the ECCC]. “The review was conducted to assess the human resource management made so far. The audit team consisted of two management experts from India and one Cambodian human resource management expert,†he said, adding that the review had been conducted in four weeks.
Sean Visoth, Director of the ECCC’s Office of Administration, was quoted as saying that the review had been made to prove whether or not the management and practice of human resource policy at the ECCC were carried out with transparency and accountability, conformed to the international standards, and responded to what had been presented by the Project Board. “Although we could not do it perfectly, we could achieve what we wanted,†said the Director of the ECCC’s Office of Administration, claiming that the audit group was hired at more than $100,000.
At the moment, the ECCC is facing up a budgetary crisis and is really in need of another $114 million dollars to proceed its job. Can the ECCC afford to be troubled by a shortage of fund anymore while the review proves that there are no faults?