Laos ‘ghost project’ audits point to higher-ups in government, source says
Investigations into a scheme in Laos in which private companies cashed government bonds issued in promise of payment for work they never performed have revealed the involvement of senior government officials who will never be brought to trial, a state auditor says.
The auditing of the so-called “ghost projects,” in which the Lao government commissioned the construction of roads that were later never built, is “very challenging for us,” the auditing official told RFA’s Lao Service.
