Military ‘filed GT200-related lawsuits a long time ago’

[snoop1130]

Military ‘filed GT200-related lawsuits a long time ago’

By JITRAPORN SENWONG 
THE NATION

 

 

ALL MILITARY units have taken legal action against their suppliers of GT200 bomb/narcotics detectors after they were found not to work.

 

“The Defence Ministry started legal proceedings after their overseas sales representatives were convicted of fraud around 2013,” Defence Ministry spokesman Lt-General Kongcheep Tantravanich said on Thursday. 

 

He was speaking up after a Bangkok court on Wednesday convicted Avia Satcom Company and its top executive of fraud for supplying the ineffective GT200 devices and related supplies to the Royal Aide-De-Camp Department.

 

“Units in the armed forces bought the devices at different times. So, they filed the lawsuits separately and at different times too,” Kongcheep explained. 

 

If the military wins the criminal lawsuits, they too will be able to sue for compensation, he added.

 

Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwon, who is also deputy prime minister overseeing security affairs, has already instructed all relevant units to expedite the cases, said Deputy Defence Minister General Chaichan Changmongkol, 

 

When asked about the scandal, Prawit on Thursday maintained that the armed forces did nothing wrong in purchasing the useless devices. 

 

“At that time, our testing teams said the devices worked,” he said. 

 

The GT200 bomb detectors have turned out to be a global scam, with fraudsters having sold the devices to several countries before their fraud was exposed and confirmed.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30355354

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-9-27

[300sd]

57 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

When asked about the scandal, Prawit on Thursday maintained that the armed forces did nothing wrong in purchasing the useless devices.

Oxymoron. That's a moron for you.

[baboon]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

If the military wins the criminal lawsuits, they too will be able to sue for compensation, he added.

Ladies and gentlemen, there we have it. The military wants compensation. Not on behalf of the state, but just for themselves. 

They are nothing but a sleazy organised crime syndicate - an army with a country, rather than the other way round. 

[baboon]

6 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Of course nobody did anything wrong when purchasing the devices. Everybody got their piece of the 30% as usual. 

 

The fact that this mob bought novelty golf ball finders for millions then denied they were duped for years tells you all you need to know about these inadequate cretins.

So how in fact can they sue, given the denials they were duped and forcing their poor squaddies to carry on using them?

Something smells like excrement and it isn't excrement... 

[BigBadGeordie]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prawit on Thursday maintained that the armed forces did nothing wrong in purchasing the useless devices. 

However, the NLA, NACC et al (for I shall not comment on the Junta) remain commited to another usless ........ah whatever.

My post will not change anything, sadly

[Pedrogaz]

I seem to remember the military defending the purchase of these units vigorously even after the company had been sued in Britain and the units were shown to have absolutely no bomb detecting abilities.

[nahkit]

Earlier this year, in March, a supplier of these devices was found not guilty of fraud which makes me wonder why this particular company ( Avia Satcom Company) have been found guilty.

 

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30341973

 

Also, with statements like this :-

 

" The current defense minister, Prawit Wongsuwan, defended the military’s handling of the affair Thursday, telling reporters the devices had been tested and found working at the time of purchase "

 

it makes me wonder why the company didn't call Prawit as a witness for the defence, surely if the best military brains thought they were genuine then you'd think the court would accept the defendents' claim that he thought they were genuine?

 

And lets not forget the then head of the Central Institute of Forensic Science who at the time vigorously defended the use of the detectors

 

" The officials of the CIFS have used it with great efficiency "

 

Again, surely she would of made a great defence witness? 

 

And finally,

 

" Thailand's junta number two on Thursday denied the army had "lessons" to learn from its multi-million-dollar purchase of fake bomb detectors "

 

" "We did nothing wrong so what is the lesson? They (the army) didn't commit any wrongdoing," he told reporters. He added that tests on the devices "worked" at the time they were purchased "

[Srikcir]

13 hours ago, baboon said:

The military wants compensation. Not on behalf of the state, but just for themselves. 

And yet it was state funds used for the purchase.

It shows that the military is a rogue organization with regard to Thai taxpayer dollars.

It should be the State suing for compensation. Why isn't it?

Nahkit Post 8 seems to answer that question.

 

[lamyai3]

15 hours ago, 300sd said:

Oxymoron. That's a moron for you.

It's the uniquely Thai cross between a buffalo and a moron. Panyaa kwai. 

[lamyai3]

15 hours ago, 300sd said:

 

 

[lamyai3]

1 hour ago, nahkit said:

the devices had been tested and found working at the time of purchase. 

They pointed it at his brain and found a golf ball.