Bang Sue station successfully cracks down on vaccination booking corruption

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BANGKOK (NNT) - Bang Sue station Vaccination Center has warned the general public not to be fooled into paying for COVID-19 vaccination registration, after a successful crackdown on offenders in the present case. Mingkwan Wichaidit, the Director of the Institute of Dermatology who is also running the center, emphasized today that all people are eligible for vaccinations without any cost.

 

Dr. Mingkwan explained that the center normally accepts 10,000 - 30,000 vaccine recipients per day by two methods of registration - advance bookings 24 May - 29 Jun, and walk-ins 30 Jun - 31 Jul. However, the center began a suspension of the walk-in vaccination service from today as the recent massive turnout makes social distancing difficult to manage.

 

Those in the walk-in group needed an on-site registration. The center therefore allowed volunteers to help enter and edit vaccine recipient’s personal information during the registration at 200 stations throughout the center. This became a loophole for the corruption that has emerged.

 

The center started to detect abnormalities in the number of advance booking cases on 18 Jul and the number significantly surged to over 2,000 registered cases on 28-31 Jul. The suspicious actions were an excessive number of advance booking recipients and late-night data uploaded after 22.00 which was outside working hours.

 

According to Dr.Mingkwan, on 28 Jul which was the first day that hundreds of unlawfully registered recipients came to the center for inoculation, the center’s team cancelled all these bookings in order to force them to show up and complain. Over 300 of them were identified and their comments were helpful in the case.

 

According to their statements, either they, a relative or employer paid for the bookings at a price of 400 - 1,200 baht per queue. The center collected the names of the offenders and their bank accounts for further investigation.

 

The Central Investigation Bureau held an initial investigation involving 19 suspects including volunteers. Meanwhile, the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) will run deeper investigations on its part.

 

To prevent a recurrence of such corruption, Dr. Mingkwan said that the Bang Sue Center canceled all suspicious advance bookings registered in the system on 28-31 Jul and up until 8 Aug, deactivated all user logins of outsiders and closed the system during the nighttime.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-08-02

 

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[tracker1]

It's our right !  corruption is accepted as part of Thai culture

[RichardColeman]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

The center collected the names of the offenders and their bank accounts for further investigation.

Ah, see how well they are connected first 

[sammieuk1]

Suspect the scam was helped by the fact that the booking was actually free and completely out of character to the norm ????

[hotchilli]

Some people just have to make a profit out of something free.

[chilly07]

The way vaccines keep disappearing makes me think this is going on everywhere starting at high company/government level and dripfeeding down to everyone in the chain. However I would wiingly pay for vaccines if I could just jabbed!

[Percy P]

7 hours ago, tracker1 said:

It's our right !  corruption is accepted as part of Thai culture

As long as it's not effecting you.

[Percy P]

7 hours ago, tracker1 said:

It's our right !  corruption is accepted as part of Thai culture

As long as it doesn't effect you

[MrJ2U]

......Now the big one, government corruption.

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  11 hours ago, webfact said:

  The center collected the names of the offenders and their bank accounts for further investigation.

  ....and their bank accounts? How do third parties get access to an individual's account?

[Sydebolle]

More bureaucracy, inefficient if not complete absence of planning at the health ministry and a culture of shortcuts, corruption and empty promises = this is the result. No-one else but the Thai people to blame for getting cheated left, right and centre by their own people and their own system. Unless someone brings this madness to a screeching halt ....... go figure 

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  ....and their bank accounts? How do third parties get access to an individual's account?

Perhaps they asked the 'victims' for the bank details they were given when payment was demanded by the scammers.

[tracker1]

On 8/2/2021 at 12:03 PM, Percy P said:

As long as it doesn't effect you

it has a few times on different matters !