Gang at Thai Airways accused of creaming off cash in fake death certificates scam

[scorecard]

2 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Not so amazing really. This is the state flag carrier. Just look at SRT and other state entities where it's a given that when one gets onto the board, the money simply flows your way and all you need is a pulse. Nobody's ever been interested in making it more competitive or efficient when it has so many fat, dripping teats.

 

 

They are on the corruption band wagon from when they are hired. Some are even born on that bandwagon and the employment and promotion is already a given and they get a better seat at the front.

 

 

Totally agree. The whole thing needs eviscerated and something new and totally unrelated with the purple and gold pig trough. However, with Air France-KLM going cap in hand to their respective governments after burning through an extra $2.5 billion during Q4 last year (the $10 billion secured when Covid broke out wasn't enough apparently), the notion of face saving will be very strong.

 

Alitalia was Europe's perpetual basket case airline and last March, after airlines and investors declined to help out, the Italian government 'saved' them by taking control. Alitalia's debts were (are still) huge but I recall doing the math last year and the financial black hole that THAI languishes is colossal in comparison... I ran out of zero's on my calculator! Even if the Thai government didn't buy submarines, they still wouldn't scratch the surface of THAI's debt. I doubt that CP, SCG, ThaiBev and SCB combined could ever cover those losses. But hey, maybe some Sino-Thai multi-trillionaire wants to pull a Richard Branson?

Further, it amazes me that the many Thai and foreign creditors (owed billions of Baht) have not strongly demanded months & months ago that they present their rehabilitation plan, get it approved and get back to flying and revenue with profit.  

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, voulez vous said:

I've been told Thai Airways was an expensive way to fly.

 

If people used other means, and airlines, to travel they might have done something about the corruption. 'Money talks' as they say.

 

In France we have no such problems.

Trouble is, too many hiso fly for free, it's a privilege!

[Cake Monster]

4 hours ago, PatOngo said:

 

Everything to do with that crooked pit of corruption for years now is a doozy! Smooth As a Wart!

Smooth as S@@t

[Cake Monster]

If the crooks can dream up this Death Scam, I wonder how much is going awry on the Health Scheme.

[natway09]

The Financial Controller has just left the room with 12 members of staff.

Fairly brazen corruption though

[law ling]

Going on for eight years - yet I'd thought the PM had come in to end corruption.

 

Wonder who got the money - the "deceased's" next of kin (so they were in on the fraud), or if the "corrupt gang of staff" just kept it - so many details missing.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Twenty six employees have been implicated in the scam in which false death certificates were issued for employees of the airline who were still living.

The airlines been dead for years but the directors still creamed in money just the same... but different.

[voulez vous]

2 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

I looked today to a 1000Baht note. I looked and looked, smiled a bit but nothing. I started to talk to the note, still nothing.????

Probably my note has no language skills.

Neil Diamond says it does.

 

Money talks But it can't sing and dance And it can't walk.

 

Try a 20 baht note next time. Sing to it.

Edited February 19, 2021 by voulez vous

[Burma Bill]

Smooth as Silk:-

 

[brianthainess]

No I cant read anymore I'll  choke on my dinner. But now I understand the black paint.

Edited February 19, 2021 by brianthainess

[kwak250]

10 hours ago, voulez vous said:

I've been told Thai Airways was an expensive way to fly.

 

If people used other means, and airlines, to travel they might have done something about the corruption. 'Money talks' as they say.

 

In France we have no such problems.

Well thats great news !

 

And i would have thought france would be surrendering to corruption!

 

[Soikhaonoiken]

And no other employee went to any of there friends funeral in 8 yrs, unbelievable..... 

[SomchaiCNX]

Every one who owns or works at management level knows that every Thai has about  10 grand fathers and grand mothers and 20 sisters and brothers or uncles that are used as an excuse to ask a couple days of paid leave ????. And for some who don't know yes funerals can be very expensive as it is an emotional thing, and all about status. In other Asian countries even the mafia is involved because of the profit that can be made. In Thailand it is a huge income for the temples and monks.

[Misterwhisper]

I wonder how many of the 240 executives that TA has laid off yesterday were among those "dead".

 

 

[SomchaiCNX]

11 hours ago, kwak250 said:

Well thats great news !

 

And i would have thought france would be surrendering to corruption!

 

France without corruption, you must be joking. Same for the neighbor to the north, Belgium is one of the most corrupt countries in the world especially in BXL and the south that is run by the socialists and communists. 

[AlfHuy]

17 hours ago, voulez vous said:

Neil Diamond says it does.

 

Money talks But it can't sing and dance And it can't walk.

 

Try a 20 baht note next time. Sing to it.

I tried it with a 1000Baht note and was singing:

Voulez-vous coucher aver moi?

Someone answered: It was not the note.

She said:Can you pay upfront, ka.

[Solinvictus]

A bit off on a tangent but, I think it would be funny if some of the culprits just came right out and mentioned the PM's name. lol

 

And then, they found yaba in their house, too. 555. You gots to put in some humor with the way things are here..

Edited February 20, 2021 by Solinvictus

[Mr Dome]

On 2/19/2021 at 11:33 AM, webfact said:

It had been going on for years and had been reported to the funeral association who, perhaps not surprisingly, took absolutely no action. 

This part is really incredible.