Govt investigating report of missing rice

Thammarat Thadaphrom

 

 

BANGKOK, 4th August 2018 (NNT) – The government has launched a probe into an allegation that 940,000 tons of pledged rice is missing following an uproar among social media users calling for responsible officers to be held accountable. 

 

Director General of the Department of Foreign Trade, Adul Chotinisakorn said the investigation has been assigned to the Office of the Auditor General of Thailand. 

 

Rice bought under the rice-pledging scheme by the previous administration totaled 18.7 million tons, but inspections carried out by the Ministry of Commerce found only 17.76 million tons in stock. 

 

The storage of pledged rice has been overseen by the Public Warehouse Organization and the Marketing Organization for Farmers. 

Adul expects the investigation to conclude before the end of September, adding that the missing rice could be the result of miscalculation. 

 

Since taking office, he said the current government has been able to sell 16.84 million tons of rice for 145.86 billion baht while the remaining 70,000 tons will be auctioned off some time this month. 

 

 

-- nnt 2018-08-05

Deja Vu ?

The missing rice could be the result of miscalculation, 

940.000 tonnes is some miscalculation, why does he not say some bar stewards have stolen it.

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by colinneil

8 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

940,000 tons of pledged rice is missing

That could feed a family and friends in say.....Dubai.....for a long time.

19 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Ministry of Commerce found only 17.76 million tons in stock. 

 

20 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

adding that the missing rice could be the result of miscalculation.

 

Looks like they used the same rice counters below !!

 

19 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

current government has been able to sell 16.84 million tons

 

19 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

the remaining 70,000 tons will be auctioned off

 

16.84 million plus 70,000 = 16.91 million which means another 850,000 has gone missing since they started counting ?

It's never ending...

14 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

 

Looks like they used the same rice counters below !!

 

 

 

16.84 million plus 70,000 = 16.91 million which means another 850,000 has gone missing since they started counting ?

It's never ending...

Too easy, like shooting fish in a bucket for the elite. Robin Hood and Ned Kelly would NOT be impressed!

29 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

That could feed a family and friends in say.....Dubai.....for a long time.

It could feed all Thais for a month! (Presuming that every Thai eats 500g of rice per day.)

It will be rats.......driving trucks, or it might have never

even been there,paid for but never really existed. 

regards worgeordie

Reckon the Falangs ate it all.

it must be our fault. 

Can't be anything to do with corruption in Thailand, that was all sorted out

ages ago. 

This seems to be far to advanced for a domestic investigation.

* The ruling government is going to put the blame on the Shinawatra-clan

* If you ask the police, they will say that it probably went on a charter boat, sunk and never to be found again.

 

However, it will be countless of possibilities. My best bet is to call in Enid Blyton´s FIVE to solve this.

51 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Rice bought under the rice-pledging scheme by the previous administration totaled 18.7 million tons, but inspections carried out by the Ministry of Commerce found only 17.76 million tons in stock. 

 

The storage of pledged rice has been overseen by the Public Warehouse Organization and the Marketing Organization for Farmers. 

Adul expects the investigation to conclude before the end of September, adding that the missing rice could be the result of miscalculation. 

 

 Since taking office, he said the current government has been able to sell 16.84 million tons of rice for 145.86 billion baht while the remaining 70,000 tons will be auctioned off some time this month. 

 

The arithmetic "skills" of Thais never cease to amaze me: 17.76 million - 16.84 million = 70,000... ?

 

Is their calculator 'Made in Thailand'?

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by StayinThailand2much

12 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Too easy, like shooting fish in a bucket for the elite. Robin Hood and Ned Kelly would NOT be impressed!

But as Ned would say, "such is life" 

They really need to go back to using the abacus 

when dots are used in caculations it is amazing how many people get it wrong.

testing of the counters mathematical skills would be front and center.

 

Only the other day some bank transfer dots were put in the wrong place and the lucky lady had all of a sudden 20 odd million in her account, she was honest and reported to the bank, but the Kiwi couple who had 7-9 million I can not remember the exact amount, well they with drew and went on a mad spending holiday trip, 

pursued by the law, 

 

so how does one lose so many bags of rice , maybe it just was not there, 

 

2 minutes ago, leeneeds said:

They really need to go back to using the abacus 

when dots are used in caculations it is amazing how many people get it wrong.

testing of the counters mathematical skills would be front and center.

 

Only the other day some bank transfer dots were put in the wrong place and the lucky lady had all of a sudden 20 odd million in her account, she was honest and reported to the bank, but the Kiwi couple who had 7-9 million I can not remember the exact amount, well they with drew and went on a mad spending holiday trip, 

pursued by the law, 

 

so how does one lose so many bags of rice , maybe it just was not there, 

 

Maybe this . 

 

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by stanleycoin

7 minutes ago, Artisi said:

But as Ned would say, "such is life" 

Precisely, famous last words.

They have the perfect scapegoat for this missing rice, unfortunately this particular person no longer resides in LOS and seems they haven't thought of it as yet, but sure the light will come on shortly. 

 

To much butt counting in the sand and not enough counting the sacks in the warehouse ?

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

adding that the missing rice could be the result of miscalculation. 

... and miscalculation could be the result of ineptitude, or theft, or neglect, or lao kao on the job, or guesstimating, or too much sanook while counting, or just maybe the million ton of rice evaporated into thin air bags and all.

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by klauskunkel

They should have inspected the trunk of Yingluck's escape car...

Any news of a disastrous surplus of rice in the UK yet?

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by Lupatria

Just look at the amount that was paid out. Divide that by the 15,000 baht per tonne paid and

that will tell you how much should be in storage, minus what you have already sold and have

shipped out. 

 

Ask Yinluck she might know where it is.

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

allegation that 940,000 tons of pledged rice is missing

This investigation would be the third (fourth?) rice audit since the junta took over the government. If more rice is found missing it must be due to the lack of proper oversight and controls by the Prayut government. That was the very same blame placed on the Yingluck regime after the junta's first rice audit.

After several previous counts (of pledged rice) I gotta' think

somebody out there already knows how much is there 

1 hour ago, Srikcir said:

This investigation would be the third (fourth?) rice audit since the junta took over the government. If more rice is found missing it must be due to the lack of proper oversight and controls by the Prayut government. That was the very same blame placed on the Yingluck regime after the junta's first rice audit.

I think that is what the OP is saying, that this rice disappeared after the current rulers took over, but I'm sure all will be just a misunderstanding in a few days from now.

Have look under Yingluck's bed

Prawit lend it to the friend l think

the rats ate it and spent it...

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by observer90210

12 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Govt investigating report of missing rice

Similar report to that of NACC investigating minister with innumerable watches. 

Maybe Prawit had an unfortunate mishap with all the flooding going around and needed to borrow some rice to dry off his horological paraphernalia. 

Easy fix to this 

 

 

https://hightimes.com/news/police-blame-rats-missing-kilos-weed/