Some information about the man Scott Neeson has chosen to head up the Cambodian Children’s Fund Child Protection Unit
Canberra to move on corruption
By Brendan Nicholson
National Security Correspondent
Canberra
The Howard Government will today announce the
creation of a powerful new body to investigate corruption in Commonwealth
organisations, including the Federal Police and the Australian Crime
Commission.
“The Howard Government acted after ministers expressed alarm that there was no standing body to investigate corruption in federal policing agencies. This shortcoming was highlighted in an ABC Four Corners program on Monday night that focused on two officers seconded from state police forces to the Australian Crime Commission who have been charged with corruption.
Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison yesterday repeated that he was confident that the Australian Crime Commission had not been compromised despite allegations of corruption against the two seconded officers.
Detective Senior Constable James Anthony McCabe, seconded from the Victoria Police, and Sergeant Samuel John Foster, of NSW, are under investigation for alleged corruption.
Both officers, who have since left the ACC, were allegedly deeply involved with underworld drug traffickers in NSW and Victoria, skimming money and drugs from sting operations.”
Former NCA officer
McCabe pleads guilty over drug sting
• JUNE 03, 2008 12:00AM
A FORMER
officer from Australia's top crime-fighting agency has pleaded guilty to
stealing drugs in a bogus sting in 2002.
James Anthony McCabe, 39, was due to stand trial on armed robbery and drugs charges in the Sydney District Court. He agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of robbery in company, with the drugs charges to be considered only as an aggravating factor when he is sentenced. Crown prosecutor Ken McKay accepted his plea. McCabe, a Victorian police officer on secondment to the National Crime Authority, was charged after a Police Integrity Commission investigation in 2004. The PIC heard evidence from a number of former NCA informants that McCabe and his partner, former NSW police officer Samuel John Foster, set up drug deals and stole cash and drugs in phoney busts. Foster and McCabe were investigating Asian organised crime for the NCA, now known as the Australian Crime Commission. "The methodology involved was to arrange a purchase of prohibited drugs from a person known as a drug trafficker," facts tendered to the court state. "As the deal was finalised, Foster would arrive with another person and pretend to arrest those present. "Foster would then persuade the drug trafficker that his primary interest was in arresting (the informants) ... and he was prepared to ignore and go easy on the drug trafficker. "On the basis that the loss of drugs was preferable to arrest, the drug trafficker would be willing to cut his losses and depart without the drugs or monies." McCabe today admitted his role in one such bust, involving the theft of a "significant" quantity of methylamphetamine, or speed, in September 2002 from a dealer known only as APW1. Foster and McCabe went with a number of informants to a location at Enfield, in Sydney's west, where a pre-arranged drug deal with APW1 was taking place. According to the agreed facts presented to the court, the pair ambushed the deal, arrested their informant and sat APW1 in the gutter while they took the drugs from his car. "At the time APW1 feared for his safety," the facts said. After freeing APW1, McCabe, Foster and their informant drove to the Rocks in central Sydney and met another two informants. "At that location the drugs were divided between (the informants) for the purpose of selling the drugs," the facts said. The drugs were never recovered or weighed and the exact quantity was therefore unknown. McCabe fled to Cambodia after the PIC hearings and was informally extradited back to Australia to stand trial last year.
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This information about James Mc Cabe is not included in any of the glowing reports Scott Neeson includes in press releases when singing the praises of his Child Protection Unit.
This information about James Mc Cabe is not included in any of the glowing reports Scott Neeson includes in press releases when singing the praises of his Child Protection Unit.
Nowhere else in the world, where the rule of law
(and common sense) prevails, would a man with McCabe’s criminal background be
allowed to head up a Child Protection Unit.
He certainly wouldn't get a job in Australia because you need a working with children card and mccabe has a criminal record so he wouldn't get one. And neeson obviously doesn't have any policy to conduct criminal history checks because if he did, mccabe would get a job with ccf. Its a scam and I think Neeson has some dark past that he is covering.
ReplyDeleteSeriously is CCF and Neeson a cover for a corrupt criminal underworld. I was just googling CCF and apart from mccabe who is a convicted criminal, has anyone looked at who is on the CCF australia board - Chief Magistrate John Pascoe - just gale this character and see how much corruption has been clinging to this quality individual. Would a Chief Magistrate with any integrity and concern for their career, seriously be involved with a group that has a convicted criminal in it. CCF is a joke.
ReplyDeleteTo find out more than you probably want to know about John Pascoe, go to:
Deletehttp://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2011/07/26/the-handiwork-of-chief-federal-magistrate-john-pascoe-–-witness-bribing-price-fixing-succumbing-to-blackmail-to-conceal-a-crime-and-lying-to-shareholders-etc-is-there-anything-this-man-cann/
Im sorry but CCF is an absolute disgrace!
DeleteWas Alan Lemon investgated as part of this bust or for other reasons? I expect that their resignation would be on someone s desk by morning! Oh yea, problem is, it would be Neeson's desk, already very cluttered!!
ReplyDeleteFrom the Australian Embassy website:
DeletePolice Liaison
Australian Federal Police Liaison Officers are attached to selected Missions or Consular Posts abroad. These Liaison Officers are responsible for law enforcement liaison with their host countries, together with any other countries within their area of geographic responsibility.
The role of the AFP Liaison Officer to Cambodia is:
• To represent the interest of the AFP, together with the wider Australian law enforcement community, on matters of law enforcement.
• To facilitate inquiries within, or on behalf of, the law enforcement communities of both the host country and Australia.
I wonder what the AFP makes of there being one corrupt convicted former AFP member and another former AFP member of questionable moral stature running a Child Protection Unit?
Ha-ha, they must be very proud of these two!!!
DeleteI doubt the AFP give a shit. They are glorified secretary's that do fuck all work whilst at an international post. They are called liaison officers for a reason. And this is how fucked those knobs in Australia are - they asked Hun Sen to arrest Mccabe and then they took him back to australia and sent him to jail, and then after jail they give him a passport again and let him go back to australia as a role model.
ReplyDeleteAn extract from the transcript of the Four Corners program in 2004 that nailed James Mc Cabe conclusively as a corrupt cop.
ReplyDeleteCHRIS MASTERS: You begin to see how dangerous these liaisons can be. On either side, divulging what you know could have fatal consequences. Here James McCabe revealed to another police officer an apparent willingness to play tough with informants.
TELEPHONE INTERCEPT, McCABE: There's no fucking doubt in the world he's been thinkin' of doing a runner prior to taping up.
MAN: Yep.
McCABE: But he, once I had him on tape as we all know, even when we gig up, you know, when I, when I meet him sometimes I wear a wire. The fact is, all I gotta do is play that tape to the wrong fuckin' crowd and he's a dead man anyway.
LACHLAN McCULLOCH: We were taught at detective training school that informers...um, informers are... are like manure. If you use them correctly, you can grow tremendous roses and win competitions. Use them incorrectly and you walk away and you've got, basically, shit all over your hands.
CHRIS MASTERS: The smell of danger and corruption intensified, apparently unnoticed, even though Foster barely concealed his behaviour, drinking with his underworld mates within sight of Sydney's ACC office. Similarly in Melbourne, McCabe was observed feeding a gambling habit a police officer's salary could hardly service. When McCabe was caught in Sydney by a telephone intercept, you can hear the chorus of pokies in the background.
TELEPHONE INTERCEPT, McCABE: You wanna see him by yourself?
MAN: Well, if you're fuckin' happy with that.
McCABE: Mate, I've got no dramas. Just remember he owes me, that's all.
MAN: Yeah, well, I'll...I'll get, I'll chase that, alright? How much he owes you?
McCABE: Just two from the other day, when we paid him the other day.
UNDERWORLD INTERVIEWEE: Yeah, I've seen them at the pokies. I've seen them at the races. I've seen them into backyard casinos, playing, you know. They were all over the place. They were always in there playing - money laundering, you know?
Mc Cabe’s respect for human life shines through with this little gem from the phone intercept:
“The fact is, all I gotta do is play that tape to the wrong fuckin' crowd and he's a dead man anyway.”
Great guy to have running a Child Protection Unit!
Ricketson, you've always given this idiot the benefit of the doubt, now what do you say???
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly getting harder and harder to give Mc Cabe the benefit of the doubt.
DeleteOne thing is certain: He should not be running a Child Protection Unit.
I have heard, from a couple of sources that Scott Neeson has said in public that the Child Protection Unit is working with the Australian Federal Police. If anyone has any confirmation of this, please let me know.
It is hard to imagine, after he has been to jail for being a corrupt AFP office, that the AFP would be working with Mc Cabe.
I have heard also that the CPU has gone into the business of drug busts. I have no idea if this is true or not, Again, if anyone has any evidence/information one way or the other, please let me know. With Mc Cabe's history with drugs busts and ripoffs it might not be a great idea for him to b conducting busts in Cambodia.
Regardless of Mc Cabe's past, what legal right does the CPU havre to be involved in drug busts anyway.
Of course this rumour may not be true but, contrary to what my colleagues in the 4th Estate might think, it is worth pursuing 10 rumours even if 9 of them turn out to be no more than rumour if one turns out to be true.
Some say people James Mc Cabe should be given a second chance. I disagree. A cop using his badge to support years of corruption, drugs, hookers, gambling should get no second chances of the kind Mc Cabe is being given in Cambodia 0- one of the most corrupt countries on thr face of the planet. For years he was known as a corrupt cop both in Victoria and NSW . Phone tapping revealed just a snip of his crimes. Its what he got away with over the years which is the most troubling. He was prepared to be a party to murder if an informant did the dirty on him for fucks sake! Dirty cops are the lowest of the low and should never be given second chance, let alone be anyway near children in a 3rd world country. I hope, for the children’s sake, that the Australian Federal police stationed in Cambodia are keeping an eye on him.
DeleteThis is a no-brainer. A convicted drug dealer and standover man involved in the protection of children! Excuse me!
DeleteWhat was Neeson thinking when he appointed Mc Cabe?
What Neeson was thinking was: "I need a thug like James Mc Cabe to watch my back and protect me from cunts like James Ricketson who get too nosy for their own good."
DeleteNo I reckon Neeson cant cut McCabe loose because he knows too much about what happened at Walkabout all those years ago. He should he was there. And Lemon. The Three Stooges. Walkabout is a fucking time bomb that will blow up in their faces one day. Too many people know.
DeleteGiven that you seem to know what took place at Walkabout, why not share it with us? If not, your comment falls into the category of ‘scuttlebutt’.
DeleteHow much scuttlebutt do you need before you take Walkabout seriously and ask around?
DeleteAs David Fletcher knows only too well scuttlebutt is like a cancer. It starts small and grows larger as other cancerous cells are added, until you have a full blown tumour. I don’t care how many people spread the same scuttlebutt. It is still scuttlebutt until someone produces some evidence. I am, incidentally, aware of all the rumours (some of them, at any rate) floating around about what took place at Walkabout a decade or so ago. If you have some hard evidence, produce it.
DeleteTeam Neeson is conspicuously silent in defending Mc Cabe. Even his pal, drinking buddy, and work associate, Alan Lemon, has been lost in his defense. Where is his letter of resignation??
DeleteAlan Lemon is exactly that - a lemon - he got sacked from the AFP for conduct unbecoming - what thats means is hidden in some files somewhere. What kind of guy gets a GF from a bar and then opens a girlie bar with her - a bar that endorses hiring girls and having bar fines - seriously, does anyone else think that is fucked - a guy in charge of a child protection organisation in the daytime and fucking pimp at night time.
DeleteSay it ain't so........
DeleteFor Mr Fraser Cameron, President & CEO, Velcro Companies
ReplyDeleteThe Cripps family and Velcro’s hearts are most definitely in the right place when it comes to your support for the Neeson Cripps Academy.
I do wonder, however, if you are aware of who it is you are dealing with? I wonder if you have done sufficient research to know whether the Neeson Cripps Academy is a dream come true for impoverished Cambodian parents seeking a good education for their children, or whether it is an ill conceived project that will do little or nothing to solve Cambodia’s educational problems; a project that may well act as a magnet to poor people in Cambodian provinces to move to Steung Meanchey so that their children can be ‘rescued’ by Scott Neeson and get a free education? If this be the case, Neeson Cripps will be creating a new problem to be solved.
Scott Neeson is a master salesman who could, I believe, sell ice to Eskimos. I do hope that the Cripps family and Velcro have done their homework and gone into this with their eyes wide open and having done the appropriate research!
It may well be that Neeson Cripps is just what is needed in Steung Meanchey but I would suggest that someone within your group of companies who can distinguish between spin and accurate information take a good look at what you have got yourself involved in. Has anyone from Velcro, for instance, sought the advice of educational experts within Cambodia as to the viability of Cripps Neeson? Has anyone within Velcro asked whether Cripps Neeson is a more important addition to the Cambodian education sustem than, say, some basic schools in the hundreds of villages in Cambodia with no school at all?
The person asking such questions should, of course, take whatever I say (or imply here) with a huge grain of salt. I would suggest that they also take any and everything Scott Neeson says with an equally huge grain of salt. As a masterful marketing man Mr Neeson will tell you what you want to hear if he thinks it will get you to open your wallets.
Here might be a good place to start if your group of companies is interested in finding out more of what they have got themselves involved with:
http://cambodia440.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/135-open-letter-to-scott-neeson-re.html
Please do go into this with your eyes wide open.
best wishes
James Ricketson
Ricketson, I couldn’t disagree with any more strongly about your letter to Velcro et al. Specifically this statement: “The Cripps family and Velcro’s hearts are most definitely in the right place when it comes to your support for the Neeson Cripps Academy.”
DeleteANYONE that supports the Cripps Academy is encouraging and aggrandizing the work of Neeson! The work of taking children from families to solve poverty by raising children in institutional care.
Let me remind you of some research done by Lumos on children growing up in institutional care, the organization started by J. K. Rowlings:
1 in 3 became homeless
1 in 5 had a criminal record
1 in 10 committed suicide
1 in 7 became involved in prostitution
Are those results that you support, or that Velcro supports??
More from Lumos:
However well intended, institutionalization, especially for very young children, is toxic and often results in lasting, irreparable harm.
The early years of a child's life are particularly critical. More than 80 years of research irrefutably prove the importance of a parent to a child's normal development. Loving, adult engagement with a young child helps strengthen neural-electrical connections in the young brain. Brain scans visibly demonstrate the dramatic difference between the brain development of children who have had sustained, nurturing, one-to-one care from an adult, and those who have been raised without it. Children growing up in orphanages and other institutions are more frequently sick and at greater risk of mental illness than are other children and, as adults, find their life chances limited.
Children should not have to sacrifice their right to a family to receive an education.
The full article is here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gillian-huebner/children-should-not-have-to-sacrifice-their-right-to-a-family_b_8078324.html?1441373600
There are many deserving NGO’s with an ability to manage and education system than Scott Neeson, the dictatorial high school drop out. What are his qualifications to run this educational system. Management decisions like taking more children or hiring Mc Cabe?
Will Neeson use the same system of skimming on Velcro donations that he does with World Housing ($2800 donated, $1000 spent, $1800 in CCF coffers)?
PLEASE, I couldn’t think of a worse place to donate money unless I WANTED to harm children!!!
U said Ur next post would be about David.....
ReplyDeleteSo did I. Soon. Patience.
DeleteIf there is an argument in favour of Mc Cabe running a child protection unit I'd love to hear it. Team Neeson?
ReplyDeleteI think mccabe lived with neeson before mccabe went to jail so they are as thick as thieves.
ReplyDeleteI think it needs to be mentioned that Jim McCabe's Khmer wife, who happened to be just 16 year girl went they met, fell pregnant shortly before he was extradited back to Australia and jailed for his corruption. One would think his judgment is somewhat impaired when it comes to working with minors .
ReplyDeleteAs for minors who have suffered horrific sex crimes, the very last person they should be engaging with is men who have history of violent crimes and a taste for Asian teens
If James Mc Cabe was having sex with a 16 year old Khmer girl before he married her does that mean anyone his Child Protection Unit catches having sex with a 16 year old can say 'I'm going to marry her so its OK just like you did Jim so its OK.'
DeleteBullshit. Scuttlebutt. Who says his wife was 16?
DeleteNeeson and McCabe's friendship that stems back many years .
ReplyDeleteNeeson rolled into Cambodia in 2004 and struck up a friendship with McCabe, who was on the run from the Australian Federal Police.
What role did Neeson play in protecting Mc Cabe from the police while he was on the run?
Neeson then sets up his institutional charity removing hundreds of poor children from their families, who are fooled into signing away access to their own
children .
And people ask Ricketson why he has it in for Neeson!
I am sorry folks, but Neeson's judgement is so poor that he feels the need to employ personals such a convicted police to work with children . It's time for Neeson to be flushed out from his hiding and answer the question being asked .
Neeson refuses any media interviews other than ones that are crafted and scripted by his marketing team .
Come out Neeson and answer questions or get out of Cambodia and take your slimy mates with you .
How much money does Scott Neeson pay the Cambodian newspapers to NOT write about any of this stuff?
ReplyDeleteLike everything else in Cambodia the media is for sale
DeleteWas James Mc Cabe's wife pregnant to him at the age of 16 or 17?
ReplyDeleteDoes it matter?
Is it anyone's business than his own and his wife's?
Yes, in relation to his heading up the Cambodian Children's Fund Child Protection Unit, it does matter. Mc Cabe's job necessitates that he pursue and prosecute men who have sex with underage Khmer girls. He cannot do so if he has, himself, had sex with at least one under age Khmer girl.
Perhaps the rumours about Mc Cab'e wife are just that - rumours. How will we ever know? We can't and won't because the Cambodian media will not ask the kind of question of James Mc Cabe that would elicit either an answer or 'no comment'.
Either answer might inspire a journalist to find out just how old Mc Cabe's wife was when she gave birth. An answer to this question would not be too hard to find for a journalist.
If James Mc Cabe is happily married to his young Khmer wife I don't, personally, have a big problem with how old she was when they met. However, I do think it inappropriate, if she was underage, that Mc Cabe be heading up a Child Protection Unit whose goal is jailing men who have sex with underage girls.
How is it possible that David Fletcher is in jail, when he clearly didn't rape Yang Dany, and James Mc Cabe is in charge of a CPU charged with arresting people who did what Mc Cabe did?? This is outrageous!! Where is the press, where are the human rights organizations, where is the British Embassy???
DeleteDon't forget donors money is being used to pay him!! When Neeson pays Lemon, are those funds used to help promote the 'hostess' bar on #136??
DeleteAnonymous 8.05 & 8.43
DeleteYour speculations are valid but they remain just that - speculations - unless or until it is known how old James Mc Cabe's wife was when he met and had a baby with her.
In order ti find out whether there is a problem here or not, someone needs to asks some questions.The problem with Cambodia is that there is no-one to do so. This does not apply merely to the Cambodian Children's Fund but to the activities of all NGOs. There are many running fake 'orphanages' that are never exposed by the media or human rights organisations. There are many that get impoverished parents to place their thumb prints on documents and then tell the parents that they have limited or no access to their own children. Just as Somaly Mam's lies were known about for years before she was exposed in public, so too are the human rights abuses of so many NGOs well known to all and yet both the media and human rights organisations turn a blind eye.
It is small wonder that NGOs such as CCF do not even go through the motions of being transparent or accountable wen there is no-one to hold them accountable.
Is it the Oasis bar??
Delete"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies."
ReplyDeleteIF it is Lemon’s girlfriend, wife or the mother of his child that owns or manages the Oasis, you might have interest in the comments made on TripAdvisor (ranked #51 of 62) that mentions the owner:
ReplyDelete“dont trust this place”
what person want to relax these kind of place but here you just cheated with the girls specially from owner who talk sweetly but in her mind only one this going how your pockect get empty. its not really worth to go that place.
“Waste of money”
Its horrible place in my life I ever been . I just say my friends better spend money on you rather than cheap girls specialy the owner of bar she is one of the cheap women there.
“if you want infected go this bar”
Its a horrible place in phnom penh , owner of the bar is big cheater and its advise to all tourist if you wanna fun don't go this bar , its really stupid place ,
Scambodia! Kingdom of Wonder!
ReplyDeleteLooks like stunning hypocrisy to me. One set of rules for James Mc Cabe and another set of rules for David Fletcher.
ReplyDeleteEMAIL TO SCOTT NEESON
ReplyDeleteCOPIED TO MEMBERS OF THE CAMBODIAN MEDIA IN THE HOPE THAT THEY MIGHT ASK SOME OF THE QUESTIONS SCOTT REFUSES TO ANSWER WHEN I (A NON-JOURNALIST!) ASKS THEM
Dear Scott
Both you, and the Neeson trolls that usually go out of their way to attack me on my blog, have been strangely silent on the question of the age of James Mc Cabe’s wife when he met her!
Could you please confirm that she was over the age of consent when Mc Cabe commenced his relationship with the young woman who was to become his wife?
I do not think this to be an unreasonable question, given that Mc Cabe, as head of the Cambodian Children’s Fund Child Protection Unit, is committed to the pursuit and prosecution of men who have sex with Khmer girls who have not reached the age of consent.
I do not, personally, think that Mc Cabe’s wife’s age is of great relevance if he is now happily married and a family man. However, if his wife had not yet reached the age of consent I believe it to be inappropriate that he should be heading up a Child Protection Unit.
I likewise do not believe it to be an inappropriate question to ask, as I have already, if, during Khmer New Year, a young girl in the care of the Cambodian Children’s Fund died and that CCF went to some lengths (including refusing to allow her friends to attend her funeral) to cover up the death.
As with the age of James Mc Cabe’s wife-to-be the answer to this question is simple. For example:
“No young girl in a CCF program died under the circumstances you describe,”
or
“Yes, a young girl died but you are wrong in your description of the circumstances. What transpired was…”
I also do not think it unreasonable to ask you why it is that you continue to speak of ‘gifting’ homes to poor Cambodian families when, in reality, the homes are ‘gifted’ to CCF and rented to the poor families to whom they have, according to CCF and World Housing’s PR, been ‘gifted’?
cheers
James
McCabe now wife was 15 when he met her at a bar - she was a virgin which McCabe likes - by the time he was arrested and sent to jail hi wife was already pregnant. It was plan by McCabe - show the judge that you have a wife a child on the way and perhaps get less sentence. mcCabe is a leach - there is nothing he is doing that does not benefit him and he will always be looking for ways to scam people or get an edge for himself. This is why there is a lot more to why Neeson hired him. I spoke to a person last week who told me that Neeson was also sending McCabe's wife money whilst he was in jail. I dont have any evidence yet but I am trying to see if I can find out.
ReplyDeleteThis is fact - the Child Protection Unit under CCF does not receive or investigate any rape cases itself - what it is doing is asking the local police to give them all of the rape cases they receive and then CCF funds it using donors money. Its perfect for the combo coppers because they not only dont have to do any work but they also get support money. So when CCF says it has investigated 170+ rapes - it is a lie - it is rapes that the police normally receive but CCF is giving them money for it and then claiming that they are doing the cases. I dont think donors would be too happy knowing that they donor money is just playing of rt. work combo police are doing - and lets not forget the under the table support money that CCF gives to the police for each case.
ReplyDeleteGreat work, James. The more rocks you turn over about mccabe, neeson and lemon, the more snakes you find. Keep the pressure on!!
ReplyDeleteLet's be sure that the 'key staff' is aware of this blog and the people they work with:
ReplyDeleteSok Channoeurn, Country Manager
Morm Sopheak, Head of Finance
Taing Sotheara, Operations Manager
Trina Capps, Organizational Development Manager
Tracy France, Head of Education
Ryan Witcombe, Marketing and Communications Manager
Kram Sokchannin, Education Manager
James (Jim) Weyers, Head of Sponsorship
Asha Griffith, Manager Partnerships & Volunteers
Ly Sophea, Head of Facility
Ouk Sochenda, CCF1 Manager
Chum Vichheka, CCF2 Manager
Voeun Sivleng, CCF6 Manager
Ngoy Hen, CCF Community Center Manager
Thim Sokha, Childcare Manager
Hoy Leanghoin, CCF Community Outreach Manager
Nhem Rithy, Child Protection Manager
Keo Sidanin, Internal Auditor
Kang Chamroeun, Sponsor Communications Manager
Chhem Saron, Sponsor Engagement Manager
Sok Phearak, Sponsor Relations Manager
Khoy Radeth, Vocational Supervisor
Dear Bob Tufts and members of the Cambodian Children’s Fund board
ReplyDeleteIt has been suggested that James Mc Cabe’s wife was only 15 when she became pregnant to him.
If this is true, and not merely scuttlebutt, was the CCF Board aware of this when it appointed Mc Cabe to head up the Child Protection Unit? Or did Mc Cabe keep this fact secret from the board?
best wishes
James Ricketson
Mcabes wife was 15 or 16 when he met her and he likes virgins, Neeson has question marks about taking young girls home from walkabout bar and martini bar, lemon has a gf that runs a girlie bar - there is some serious stench going on here. If it wasnt so disgusting I would be thinking that CCF is just a cover for a pedophile ring that these guys are involved with.
ReplyDeleteWhy dont you ask Jason Thatcher - he worked with CCF for years and was close mates with Neeson before they had a falling out. He would certainly know the inside gossip. I dont think he is a friend of mccabe or lemon either
ReplyDeleteit not hard to find mccabe - just do a drive by of a few of the local pubs particularly the Exchange near what phnom penh and you will find mccabe drinking a beer at 10am in the morning. rumour has it the guy hits the bottle pretty hard every day.
ReplyDeleteScuttlebutt.
ReplyDeleteYes, Anonymous 3.40, perhops it is scuttlebutt.
DeleteIf it is not, James Mc Cabe's letter of resignation should be with the CCF board immediately for having deceived its members about his past.
Alternatively, if the CCF board knew that James Mc Cabe had had sex with a 15 or 16 year old girl and employed him to head up their Child Protection Unit, the board should resign.
The same applies of course, for Scott Neeson. If James Mc Cabe was having sex with his 15 or 16 year old wife to be and Neeson knew about it and suggested to the CCF board that it should employ Mc Cabe to head up the Child Protection Unit, Neeson should also resign.
If James Mc Cab;e wife was not 15 or 16 at the time their relationship began, if she was of the age of consent in accordance with Cambodian law, there is no problem. All that Mc Cabe and/or Neeson needs to do is
declare that she was of the age of consent and the topic is closed.
Above sounds real to me 3:40, you sound like someone taking money from donors!!
DeletePolice officer implicated in Asian drug trade
ReplyDeleteAM - Friday, 6 August , 2004 08:08:00
Reporter: Nick McKenzie
ELEANOR HALL: Now to a special AM investigation into the involvement of an officer from Australia's elite crime fighting authority in the illegal drug trade in South East Asia.
There are fears that the recent overseas deployment of a corrupt Australian Crime Commission officer may jeopardise Australia's relationship with law enforcement officials in South East Asia.
AM has learned corruption investigators have serious concerns about the conduct in Cambodia of former Victorian detective and Australian Crime Commission officer, James McCabe.
The ABC has discovered Mr McCabe is being investigated for his role in illegal drug importation. He is understood to have conducted covert police work in South-East-Asian countries without approval, and an analysis of his assets has uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspect deposits.
If the allegations were to be proven in court, they would amount to the most serious corruption ever uncovered inside the nation's elite crime fighting body. But because there is still no corruption watchdog for the Australian Crime Commission, there is no formal investigation into Mr McCabe's activity overseas.
In his first public statements, James McCabe has told the ABC he is not corrupt, broke no laws and did nothing wrong. On the contrary he says the ACC ignored his almost daily requests for help while in Cambodia, leaving him to do the work of a two-man team.
Nick McKenzie has the story.
NICK MCKENZIE: Victorian detective, James McCabe's reputation for cracking Asian drug syndicates led to his appointment to the National Crime Authority in late 1999. Three years later, when the NCA became the Australian Crime Commission, or the ACC, McCabe took on a highly sensitive role as their man on the ground in Cambodia.
But his time there is now worrying law enforcement agencies. AM has confirmed authorities are investigating McCabe's role in an importation of heroin from Cambodia to Sydney – an importation which was meant to be monitored by police. It's believed McCabe corruptly interfered with the 350 gram importation, and possibly a number of others to get a cut.
....there is more....
.....more...
DeleteAM understands an examination of McCabe's assets encompassing his time in South East Asia has uncovered suspect bank deposits totalling at least $200,000.
Sources have told AM that McCabe, while overseas, was overheard instructing a Sydney-bases ACC officer to call him on a so-called clean phone – one unable to be monitored by police.
But James McCabe disputes this. In his first public statement, he told AM the following, which is read out by another reporter:
JAMES MCCABE STATEMENT: All the allegations I've only heard from you, the ABC. I emphatically deny them all.
NICK MCKENZIE: The ABC has also learned authorities are concerned McCabe committed serious breaches of police procedure. While in Cambodia, sources claim McCabe entered Vietnam on black operations – that is, to carry out covert police work without the permission or approval of Vietnamese authorities or the ACC.
AM understands McCabe has said he did make unauthorised trips to other countries, but only out of operational necessity. When asked repeatedly by the ABC if he conducted any police work in Vietnam, McCabe did not deny it, but would only respond:
JAMES MCCABE STATEMENT: I had to go to Vietnam to extend my visa.
NICK MCKENZIE: It's understood investigators have also seized a letter written by an Australian Federal police officer based in Cambodia. Written on Australian High Commission letterhead, it asks Thai authorities to grant a Cambodian woman travel documents to allow her to visit Bangkok at short notice. The letter stated McCabe and the woman had to make the trip as part of official police business.
McCabe has told AM the following:
JAMES MCCABE STATEMENT: Bangkok was an official trip. The ACC approved it.
NICK MCKENZIE: But sources say the ACC never approved the trip. The letter contained false information, and that it later emerged the woman who accompanied McCabe was in fact his Cambodian girlfriend. In a statement, the ACC told AM it could not comment on these events because of ongoing investigations.
John Broome is the former chairman of the National Crime Authority, the predecessor to the ACC.
JOHN BROOME: There is just simply no excuse for people going off on frolics of their own. Whatever they may think the particular exigencies are at the time, it can never be an excuse for threatening the longer term relationships which Australia has in the region.
If I'd been in the situation of being in charge of an organization where I discovered somebody was doing this kind of thing they would have been on the next plane home.
NICK MCKENZIE: In denying he ever acted inappropriately overseas, James McCabe has also lashed out at the ACC for failing to provide him with adequate support. He told the ABC he alone was doing the job of two people.
JAMES MCCABE STATEMENT: I made repeated requests to the ACC for extra assistance. These were ignored. The job was only a success because of the assistance of the Cambodian police force.
NICK MCKENZIE: Once again, the ACC refused to comment on this claim, although sources have told AM that McCabe was not provided with adequate support because the ACC could not afford it.
JOHN BROOME: In my experience, it's certainly unusual for individuals to operate in this way, and certainly whenever we were involved in my time at the Authority in sending staff overseas, there was always at least two officers, and sometimes more.
After all, somebody working in, apparently, an undercover environment overseas is in a particularly vulnerable position. And there is obviously on any agency an obligation to ensure that if you're putting staff into that position, you provide them with significant support.
ELEANOR HALL: Former Chair of the National Crime Authority John Broome. Nick McKenzie reporting.
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ReplyDeleteReporter: Rafael Epstein
ELEANOR HALL: The ABC has learned that even before James McCabe began his work overseas, the Victorian police force had been told of claims he was corrupt.
AM understands Victoria's Chief Commissioner of Police, Christine Nixon, will be quizzed at a National Police Commissioners' meeting about why these allegations were not passed on to the Australian Crime Commission.
Police also say they're frustrated they can investigate Mr McCabe's activities in Australia, but not his conduct in Cambodia. As a result, despite various investigations, James McCabe has been free to travel to and from Cambodia at will.
This report from Rafael Epstein.
RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Investigators in Victoria are examining whether McCabe is linked to police charged with drug dealing. In Sydney, investigators are considering charging him for ripping off a drug dealer. But suspicions about his eight-month stint in Cambodia are not the subject of any official investigation.
He's been able to travel to Cambodia twice this year alone, returning last month. He apparently has a strong social network there. His Cambodian girlfriend is the personal assistant to a Cambodian police colonel. The colonel still works with Australian police based in Phnom Penh.
Gary Crooke is an Integrity Commissioner in Queensland, and a consultant to the Victorian Police Ombudsman.
He says there are clear problems investigating activities overseas that may be corrupt.
GARY CROOKE: Australian law enforcement agencies, on the face of it, don't have jurisdiction to investigate overseas criminality. When someone goes over there you haven't got the same degree of supervision or anti corruption measures.
RAFAEL EPSTEIN: A corruption watchdog for Federal officers is now being set-up, but whether it can legally or practically examine McCabe's conduct in Cambodia is unclear.
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DeleteBut the questions about McCabe began before he even went there.
In December 2002, one month before he went overseas, a criminal informer told Victorian police about a drug trafficking ring involving corrupt police. The informer saw McCabe at meetings when other officers were involved in drug trafficking. McCabe has not been charged, but his role is still being investigated.
However, the ACC were not told. The informant later signed a statement outlining his claims when McCabe was halfway through his stint, but little action was taken.
Victorian police would not comment, but when Australia's police commissioners have their regular meeting next month, AM's been told Victoria's Chief commissioner, Christine Nixon, will be asked why those allegations only dribbled through to the ACC.
Gary Crooke again.
GARY CROOKE: Risk assessment. Having the best possible procedures that you can in place, and being very careful about the people you select. Supervision is a different problem, because resources are such that it's unlikely that you could have the same team in place remotely as you would if it were in Australia.
RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Police sources say the ACC also ignored questions about McCabe's claims of success in Cambodia. McCabe took much of the credit for a record seizure of amphetamines that sources claim was really only a success because of the work of others in Sydney.
McCabe also claimed credit for the seizure of 24 kilograms of heroin, but sources say he initially asked for the shipment to be ignored, saying a larger importation was imminent, and bigger crooks might be snared if the smaller shipment was allowed through.
McCabe emphatically denies this, saying it would be a ridiculous request, and his only concern was that the arrests of more senior people straight after the seizure put his undercover operation and his life at risk.
Again, his statement is read out by another reporter.
JAMES MCCABE STATEMENT: There were concerns why senior syndicate members were arrested so soon. Had it got out, it could have caused serious problems.
RAFAEL EPSTEIN: Justice Minister, Chris Ellison, did not respond to questions, but he'll be hoping the yet to be formed federal corruption watchdog will mean the ACC will no longer rely on State bodies like Victoria's Ethical Standards Department. They had to intervene to derail plans by the Cambodian Government to award McCabe for his work.
For now, it seems, no one will ever be able to fully examine McCabe's activities in South East Asia.
ELEANOR HALL: Rafael Epstein reporting.
shocking how this man could ever be near children sends shudders through my veins.
ReplyDeleteSo Australia "exports" a convicted criminal to become Director of the National Police’s Child Protection Unit in Cambodia and at the same time sells children of unwanted refugees to the Cambodian government. What horrific disgrace to a presumably civilized nation!
ReplyDeletePAEDOPHILIA AND EMPIRE-YOUTUBE, EXPLAINS A LOT, THAT THE CHILD PROTECTION AGENCIES ARE CHILD TRAFFICKING.
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