(캄보디아) 훈센 가족들의 비지니스 연관성 글로벌 윗니스가 조사 중

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July 7, 2016 12:38 am

Cambodia strongman’s family business links under scrutiny

By Michael Peel, Bangkok regional correspondent

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Relatives of Cambodia’s strongman prime minister have amassed fortunes from the country’s main industries and become a gateway for international brands in the Southeast Asian state, a report has claimed. 

London-based campaign group Global Witness says Hun Sen has “abused his position” and family members have been able to rack up large stakes and directorships across businesses that count leading multinational companies as clients or partners. 캄보디아의 스트롱맨 훈센 총리의 친척들이 국가의 주요산업체로부터 부를 축적하여 남동아시아 국가의 국제적 브랜드가 되었다 런던에 본부를 두고 있는 운동단체 글로벌 윗니스에 따르면, 훈센은 "자신의 직위를 남용"했으며 그의 가족들은 캄보디아 전역에 걸쳐 다수의 주식을 획득하여 해당 기업체의 총수가 되었다. 이 기업체들은 다국적 기업들을 고객이나 사업파트너로 두고 있다.

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The allegations echo wider criticisms of how Mr Hun Sen, Asia’s longest-ruling leader, has maintained good relations with the west during his 31 years in power, despite the emergence of large-scale land-grabbing, resource-stripping and enrichment of tycoons. 광대한 토지수탈, 자원수탈, 재벌의 축재 등이 진행됨에도 불구하고, 아시아 최장기 집권자 훈센이 어떻게 지난 31년간 서방과 좋은 관계를 유지했었는지에 대한 비판하고 있다.

Phay Siphan, a spokesman for Mr Hun Sen, said he would not engage with the allegations in the report. He accused Global Witness of having a “secret agenda to be personally attacking my prime minister”. 

Patrick Alley, a Global Witness co-founder, dismissed the remarks as a “tired excuse” from the regime established by Mr Hun Sen. “It is time that Cambodia’s international partners and foreign investors recognise that the country is a dictatorship — and is likely to become a dynastic one,” Mr Alley said. 

An analysis of Cambodian corporate records showed members of Mr Hun Sen’s immediate family had shareholdings or directorships in companies with a total listed share capital of more than $200m in profitable sectors such as mining, gambling and property, Global Witness alleges. The report says Hun Mana, the prime minister’s eldest daughter, had interests in 22 companies with listed share capital of at least $66.7m. It adds that the real total is likely to be “significantly higher”. 

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Ms Hun Mana chairs Moon Media, a market-leading advertising company, while her younger sister Hun Maly is also a director and shareholder, Global Witness claims. Moon Media lists many multinational clients on its website, including Visa, Unilever and Procter & Gamble. Visa said it did not have any current relationship with Moon Media.

Name of the game

Cambodia’s prime minister has joined the ranks of title-hungry leaders. Mr Hun Sen, who has presided over his country’s journey from genocidal devastation to tycoons’ playground and cut-price factory, must now be called “Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo” — roughly, “Lord Prime Minister and Supreme Military Commander”.

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Ms Hun Mana, Ms Hun Maly and Moon Media did not respond to questions submitted by the FT via the company. 

Ms Hun Maly’s husband, Sok Puthyvuth, is chief executive of Soma Group, a conglomerate with interests ranging from construction to energy, the report claims. The company’s ventures range from a part-share of a $100m project to expand Phnom Penh’s airport, to a multimillion-dollar biomass power deal in 2012 with General Electric of the US. This was the first project launched under an alternative-energy development agreement struck between GE and the Cambodian government the previous year. 

Mr Sok Puthyvuth and Soma did not respond to questions submitted by the FT via the company. Mr Sok Puthyvuth told Global Witness he understood he lived “in the shadows” of his family, the group’s report says. He said he took seriously “the challenge of building a responsible and respected private sector group”, adding: “I admit it is a work in progress.” 

GE said it had supplied two Waukesha engines to the Soma project. It added that it had a presence in more than 170 countries and operated in full compliance with both US and local laws and regulations. 

Mr Hun Sen and his allies have established formidable control over Cambodia since they took power in the aftermath of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge genocide. The country has seen fast economic growth thanks to low-wage manufacturing in sectors such as garments but other big industries, such as logging, have been plagued by accusations of wide-ranging corruption. 

The prime minister, a former Khmer Rouge commander who reinvented himself as a democrat, is overseeing increasingly hardline measures against political enemies. Authorities have detained and harassed leading figures from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party, part of an on-off political crisis sparked by disputed parliamentary elections in 2013. 

The Cambodian government denies persecuting the opposition and says it is committed to tackling corruption.