I fully agree. Sweden didn't have to pay $40 mio to Cambo to get Warg deported. The suggestion is complete nonsense.
The reason is simple: Cambodia is highly corrupt! Just check Cambodia's ranking at Transparence International http://goo.gl/BTpss and follow the news about land grabbing, dubios investment deals, illegal logging and the institutionalized corruption on _all_ levels of the Khmer administration (down to low level school teachers in the villages, e.g.) and about the lawlessness in Cambodia.
The Khmer elite (government, military, businesses) has no problem to sell out its own citizens and country (funny side-note: they even sold the building of the fully working main police station in Siem Reap or the Art University in Phnom Penh to investors - only selling parts of the ground of the Royal Palace failed). Khmer officials feel even less restraint to sell out a foreign nationals.
Conclusion: Sweden had just to bribe some high ranking officials with a few hundred USD.
And I guess the Khmer officials had no idea, that this would make the international news.
By the way, usually the Khmer government doesn't give a sh*t what history expats living in Cambodia have, as long as the don't cross the Khmer elite or become the aim of international media and NGOs (for example in cases of Western paedophiles). Especially since Cambodia does not have any extradition treaties with Western country.
PS: Cambodia receives around 1 billion USD foreign aid each year, while it is said that Cambodia loses 500 Mio USD due to corruption. In the end Sweden just gave the Khmer elite 20 Mio USD for free...
I have lived there. There's lots of corruption. TPB admin also had huge drug problem, which most likely is why he chose Cambodia. He didn't go there for any kind of political asylum, he went there to hide from Sweden and to use drugs.
Read khrem440 forums or ask any expat living there.. everyone knew about his drug problems. He also lived in an apartment that cost $750 a month. That's huge rent for a country where people earn like $30 a month.
What you write is mostly unsupported nonsense. Warg was a very active member of the Khmer 440 forum until he had fallout with the admin. Now the admin wrote a highly denunciating article about him. The admin even included second hand information about a breakdown Warg had at his job - which is being denied by the company owner.
Paying 750 USD for an apartment is in fact a nice sum, but actually PP is expensive for expats, so it's nothing out of ordinary.
Also comparing Warg's income he had as programmer (even though we don't have no details about his income) with the average income of an unschooled Khmer farmer or unskilled factory worker is really absurd.
If you have lived in Cambo I guess you were never really interested in what's going on in the country, except may what't the matter with drugs there...;-)
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I fully agree. Sweden didn't have to pay $40 mio to Cambo to get Warg deported. The suggestion is complete nonsense. The reason is simple: Cambodia is highly corrupt! Just check Cambodia's ranking at Transparence International http://goo.gl/BTpss and follow the news about land grabbing, dubios investment deals, illegal logging and the institutionalized corruption on _all_ levels of the Khmer administration (down to low level school teachers in the villages, e.g.) and about the lawlessness in Cambodia. The Khmer elite (government, military, businesses) has no problem to sell out its own citizens and country (funny side-note: they even sold the building of the fully working main police station in Siem Reap or the Art University in Phnom Penh to investors - only selling parts of the ground of the Royal Palace failed). Khmer officials feel even less restraint to sell out a foreign nationals. Conclusion: Sweden had just to bribe some high ranking officials with a few hundred USD. And I guess the Khmer officials had no idea, that this would make the international news. By the way, usually the Khmer government doesn't give a sh*t what history expats living in Cambodia have, as long as the don't cross the Khmer elite or become the aim of international media and NGOs (for example in cases of Western paedophiles). Especially since Cambodia does not have any extradition treaties with Western country. PS: Cambodia receives around 1 billion USD foreign aid each year, while it is said that Cambodia loses 500 Mio USD due to corruption. In the end Sweden just gave the Khmer elite 20 Mio USD for free...
I have lived there. There's lots of corruption. TPB admin also had huge drug problem, which most likely is why he chose Cambodia. He didn't go there for any kind of political asylum, he went there to hide from Sweden and to use drugs. Read khrem440 forums or ask any expat living there.. everyone knew about his drug problems. He also lived in an apartment that cost $750 a month. That's huge rent for a country where people earn like $30 a month.
What you write is mostly unsupported nonsense. Warg was a very active member of the Khmer 440 forum until he had fallout with the admin. Now the admin wrote a highly denunciating article about him. The admin even included second hand information about a breakdown Warg had at his job - which is being denied by the company owner. Paying 750 USD for an apartment is in fact a nice sum, but actually PP is expensive for expats, so it's nothing out of ordinary. Also comparing Warg's income he had as programmer (even though we don't have no details about his income) with the average income of an unschooled Khmer farmer or unskilled factory worker is really absurd. If you have lived in Cambo I guess you were never really interested in what's going on in the country, except may what't the matter with drugs there... ;-)