Allegation On Democratic Voice of Burma

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10/1/11 1:43 PM
Norway
01.10.2011
Million Embezzlement at Democratic Voice of Burma
BASED IN LONDON: Democratic Voice of Burma has is based in Stockholm (picture), but there are three managers at the radio station's office in Thailand suspected of embezzlement. Photo: Roald, Berit / SCANPIX
The management of radio and television station, Democratic Voice of Burma suspect three people at the Thailand office of having embezzled 1.7 million. Foreign Ministry stopped support for now.
Published 30.09.2011 10:51 p.m..
The independent radio and TV station is based in Oslo, and send uncensored news via satellite and shortwave. It is estimated that 5 million Burmese have access to the broadcasts.
- It's so terribly depressing is that someone has eaten through the cracks of what was to apply the brave journalists who work in Burma, says chairman Harald Boeckman said.
The radio station has an office in Thailand that provides audio and images from journalists working inside Burma. There are three leaders of this office that is now suspected of embezzlement, but all three denied having done anything wrong.
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It alleged the team was committed in 2010. The three are exempt from its obligations.
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- The matter will be reported to the police in Norway. So we'll see what the investigation brings, says Boeckman. During the team shall have been committed in 2010, but the relationship discovered only now. None of the station's journalists should be involved. - Until last year, the work could be compared with the resistance work in this country during World War II. It was impossible to maintain normal controls, and that is what some alleged to have taken advantage of, says Boeckman. Democratic Voice of Burma was founded as a radio station of the Burmese students and refugees who fled the country after the uprising in 1988. The station was donated to the Burmese government in exile of the Norwegian authorities in 1992 but in 2000 the station was independent.
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- It's so terribly depressing is that someone has eaten through the cracks of what was to apply the brave journalists who work in Burma, says the radio station's board chairman Harald Boeckman.
Expect a full clean-up

The station is supported by the Norwegian government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Communications Kjetil Elsebutangen confirms that they are notified of the team. - We see a very serious matter. We expect that the Democratic Voice of Burma provides a full clean-up, and we will not pay the new support until this is done, says Elsebutangen said. The board of radio station writes in a press release that they will follow the matter further. They want to emphasize that the station promotes democracy and transparency, and will not allow activities that cut across this. Managing Director of Aye Chan Naing and Vice President Khin Maung Win has resigned from his positions. They now await further investigation. - They are not involved in the team, but as leaders assumed full responsibility for what has happened, said Boeckman.
Photo: Holm, Morten / SCANPIX
Managing Director of Aye Chan Naing in DVB has resigned from his post.
Photo: MARTIAL Trezzini / AP
Ham Yawnghwe is appointed as acting CEO. Boeckman says the events will have no impact on the radio station's work.
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