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An aid package of 60 million dollars would be three times the amount they spent yearly on Cambodia in the last decade (with little variance). See [1].

[1]: http://www.openaid.se/en/countries/kambodja?year=2012

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Coincidentally, it would be thirty hundred thousand times the amount I would pay to a local Cambodian corrupt cop to get that dude's ass on jail. With little variance. Point is, Swedish readers, you should vote me for chief prosecutor of your country.

No, seriously. TorrentFreak here wants us to believe that Cambodia got 40G$ for arresting someone who is not precisely Pablo Escobar reincarnate. Do they seriously want us to believe that the Swedish Minister of Justice is that incompetent? I mean, some calls, an Interpol red notice... I could get it done for less than a million, my fees included. So vote me.

You have experience paying money to corrupt cops in Cambodia? Are most cops in Cambodia corrupt? Did you already do that? Sounds interesting so could you elaborate?

Or have you never been to Cambodia and use HN to throw around racist comments about corruption in Asia?

Cambodia is ranked 164 out of 182 on the Corruption Perceptions Index list as of 2011, just slightly less corrupt than Libya. Not a very ringing endorsement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Except the 60 million dollars are for two years, as described in the article linked from Torrentfreak.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/05/c_1318292...

So it is a 50% increase from 20 to 30 million.

So "only" 150% of the average yearly state expenses instead of 300%. Was there a point you were trying to make or you're just being pedantic?

I think the point he's trying to imply (and you're trying to ignore) is that Sweden effectively paid Cambodia $20 million to arrest this person.

I'm not really following your math, the point is that it's a shit-ton of money for Cambodia, whether we're talking about $60M or $30M per year.

You read my point. You can fill in the dots. Also, see the other comments in this thread that this is _old_ news, which predates Anakata's arrest.

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