Posted May 8, 2017 4:29 am EDT
Last Updated May 8, 2017 at 5:20 am EDT

FILE – In this July 2002 file photo, dust flows from under the truck loaded with logs as it makes its way on a rural road in Preah Vihear province, north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. An environmental watchdog has accused Vietnamese government and military officials of taking payoffs to ignore vast smuggling of lucrative lumber from neighboring Cambodia. Millions of dollars in bribes have been paid by Vietnamese timber traders to both Vietnamese and Cambodian officials, the report issued Monday, May 8, 2017, by the U.K.-based Environmental Investigation Agency alleges. (AP Photo/ Heng Sinith, File)
BANGKOK – An environmental watchdog has accused Vietnamese government and military officials of taking payoffs to ignore vast smuggling of lucrative lumber from neighbouring Cambodia.