Park cameras nab illegal loggers in Nakhon Ratchasima

By The Nation

 

Nine Cambodians suspected of involvement in illegal logging in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Thap Lan National Park were arrested on Monday night after being spotted by the park’s surveillance cameras.

The NCAPS (Network-Centric Anti-Poaching System) cameras proved its usefulness, picking up the activity and triggering the arrests just as the alleged timber thieves were about to make off with 80 processed planks of Siamese rosewood in their backpacks.

 

A 50-strong team of police and park officials made the arrests at 9.30pm, an hour after the NCAPS alert came in.

 

Officials claimed the Cambodians confessed to having sneaked across the border into Sa Kaew province along with 36 other compatriots.

 

They said they’d been hired to transport timber that a Cambodian investor had bought from a Thai investor and were to be paid Bt250 per kilogram for as much wood as they could smuggle out.

 

A park source said some of the nine suspects had been arrested for the same offence before, but due to a lack of evidence had been simply sent back to Cambodia.

 

Siamese rosewood, valued as a hardwood, is a threatened species. Conservationists have warned it could be extinct in Southeast Asia by 2026.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30327109

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-09-19

1 hour ago, webfact said:

They said they’d been hired to transport timber that a Cambodian investor had bought from a Thai investor and were to be paid Bt250 per kilogram for as much wood as they could smuggle out.

More like a 'Thai investor' selling off what has been entrusted to his government office for protection and doesn't bloody belong to him.

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

A park source said some of the nine suspects had been arrested for the same offence before, but due to a lack of evidence had been simply sent back to Cambodia.

And is there anything to suggest that this won't happen again this time? Anything?

Edited September 19, 20178 yr by NanLaew

Can we hope that the Thai big man thief and the Mongrel Cambodian rich man are to be pursued? 

16 hours ago, NanLaew said:

More like a 'Thai investor' selling off what has been entrusted to his government office for protection and doesn't bloody belong to him.

 

And is there anything to suggest that this won't happen again this time? Anything?

how about 20kg of wood strapped to his back or maybe thats circumstantial ??? 5555