‘Vicious circle’ as officials benefit from ‘taking care’ of supervisors

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‘Vicious circle’ as officials benefit from ‘taking care’ of supervisors

By THE NATION

 

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THE EMBEZZLEMENT of state funds often sees officials in the provinces stealing money from regional budgets before it is to be legitimately distributed and then sending it to corrupt supervisors in central agencies, a former National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) member, who asked to remain anonymous, has said.

 

After national budgets were approved by Parliament and allocated to ministries and departments, regional and provincial agencies “serving” the public received funds that were supposed to be distributed to people in need. 

 

However, corrupt officials at the regional often embezzled funds, sending back a portion of the funds to supervisors in Bangkok head offices, and collecting an illicit “commission”, resulting in recipients receiving Bt1,000 to Bt2,000 instead of the Bt3,000 assistance they were entitled to, the source said. 

 

Some “commissions” were also apportioned to “take care”  of central agency supervisors when they visited regional offices, he added. 

 

In what has recently been exposed as a nationwide network of alleged corruption, the pattern is repeated in a “vicious circle”, as local officials who “took care” of their superiors were often promoted more quickly, resulting in them setting up their own tributary networks that perpetuated the pattern, he added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30340934

 

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[Lungstib]

Finally we are getting to the truth. A very senior figure coordinates all this graft from a central office in Bangkok. 40 plus different local officials didn't just happen to come up with the same idea. Remember Supoj, the man who was robbed of 50 times more money than he said he had? That was dept of transport and he wont be the only one. Everyone in the office knows and silence prevails. Till an honest student arrives and finds in unacceptable.

[scorecard]

 

A pyramid scheme, and to arrogant, or too stupid, to realize that someone could easily bring the pyramid down. 

 

But still waiting for what punishments will be given, maybe still waiting in my next life!

[colinneil]

Officials appointed to take care !!!!!!!

They only take care of themselves, and their greedy bosses.

[mok199]

the sheer numbers is what made then feel secure and safe ....now..they will all be struggling to avoid prosecution, as they cut deals, rat out friends and family,run and hide etc etc...all I can say is...''these disgusting thais deserve each other'''...the scale of this ,is finaly what Thailand needed to observe..Finally!!!

Edited March 15, 2018 by mok199
speliing

[Thian]

10 minutes ago, scorecard said:

But still waiting for what punishments will be given, maybe still waiting in my next life!

Buddha has seen it all...

 

And publish all names in the papers, you cant loose face more than stealing from donated money for the poorest people.

 

 

[YetAnother]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

In what has recently been exposed as a nationwide network of alleged corruption, the pattern is repeated in a “vicious circle”, as local officials who “took care” of their superiors were often promoted more quickly, resulting in them setting up their own tributary networks that perpetuated the pattern, he added.

helps explain why things are so messed up in this country; wrong people in the wrong jobs for the wrong reasons

[Juan B Tong]

Kudos to the Nation newspaper.

[mtls2005]

No wonder Amway is so popular here.

 

[RichardColeman]

If they take out 99% of those on bribes and the take, I'll rent them out my spare bedroom to run the government from

[whaleboneman]

Thai economics 101. 

[akirasan]

Yes, finally this is becoming uncovered but forgive my skepticism, nothing will change.

If they were serious they'd run a full list of names of everyone involved on all news channels, bring criminal charges against them and make them pay back every dollar they stole.

It would be good to see international media report on this.  The dear leaders silence is deafening.  

[AhFarangJa]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

If they take out 99% of those on bribes and the take, I'll rent them out my spare bedroom to run the government from

Or the cupboard under the stairs........

[Srikcir]

12 hours ago, webfact said:

a former National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) member, who asked to remain anonymous

Apparently the frequent embezzlement of state funds by officials in the provinces is a well-known fact. And the NACC knows about it.

Et Tu Brutus?

This former NACC member's desire for anonymity condemns not only the NACC but himself for having knowledge of corruption and abets its existence through inaction. The NACC needs to be scraped.

[stephen tracy]

6 hours ago, akirasan said:

Yes, finally this is becoming uncovered but forgive my skepticism, nothing will change.

If they were serious they'd run a full list of names of everyone involved on all news channels, bring criminal charges against them and make them pay back every dollar they stole.

It would be good to see international media report on this.  The dear leaders silence is deafening.  

The Dear Leader is one of the worst offenders. But question that, and away to jail you will go.

[chama]

12 hours ago, Lungstib said:

Finally we are getting to the truth. A very senior figure coordinates all this graft from a central office in Bangkok. 40 plus different local officials didn't just happen to come up with the same idea. Remember Supoj, the man who was robbed of 50 times more money than he said he had? That was dept of transport and he wont be the only one. Everyone in the office knows and silence prevails. Till an honest student arrives and finds in unacceptable.

Yes, but I don't believe it was not suspected. The question now becomes will anything be done to really correct the situation? Will a few hands be slapped and the problem declared solved or will people go to jail and policy begin to be enforced? Hummm...