Thai PM orders nationwide crackdown on loan sharks

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha responded after press reports that people in Buriram were hiding in the jungle from debt collectors.

 

Daily News quoted RTP spokesman Pol Col Krissana Pattanacharoen as saying that the PM cares about the people and the hardship caused by loan sharks with their high and illegal interest rates and the activities of debt collectors.

 

Consequently the RTP chief Gen Suwat Chaengyodsuk has advised his high ranking officers to alert their reasonably high ranking underlings to alert their mid range......

 

Well you get the point. Daily News was describing a nationwide crackdown by the full force of the Royal Thai Police. 

 

They noted that so far this year the RTP had investigated 1,900 loan shark cases and complaints of which 1,700 were resolved and 200 still under investigation. 

 

They even had a number to call to report loan sharks: 1599.

 

ASEAN NOW has continually reported loan shark cases this year. It appears that the embarrassing idea of people feeing to the hills to avoid debt seems to have provoked the Thai PM to turn a crackdown in to a bigger crackdown. 

 

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[petermik]

The PM orders crackdowns every other week but nothing ever gets done.....more hot air.

[Jimbo2014]

Just now, petermik said:

The PM orders crackdowns every other week but nothing ever gets done.....more hot air.

Are you calling for a crackdown on crackdowns?  ????

[Henryford]

What does he expect people to do with no job, no income and no Government support?

[Gsxrnz]

Shark Week is early this year?

[Gsxrnz]

My missus (who is all seeing, all knowing, and generally omniscient in respect to the underground lottery, gambling, and loan sharking) insists that the BIB run 90% of the loan sharks, lottery and gambling, and spend 90% of their time hunting down the other 10% who are freelancing without paying the appropriate commissions.

 

You heard it here first.  ????

[Rampant Rabbit]

a  crackdown on the idiots  borrowing  beyond their  means would  be  better

[sammieuk1]

Next up entire police force arrests itself ????

[Gandtee]

50 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

My missus (who is all seeing, all knowing, and generally omniscient in respect to the underground lottery, gambling, and loan sharking) insists that the BIB run 90% of the loan sharks, lottery and gambling, and spend 90% of their time hunting down the other 10% who are freelancing without paying the appropriate commissions.

 

You heard it here first.  ????

Right on, Baby.????

[trainman34014]

I stopped reading when i got to the part that said 'The PM cares about the People' !

[Gsxrnz]

26 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

Next up entire police force arrests itself ????

They do arrest each other from time to time.  Usually it's a territorial dispute and some coppers open a gambling den outside their duly allotted franchise area and dilute the customer base of the legitimate franchisee. Quite rightly, the legitimate franchisee holders bust the interlopers.

 

The Mia Noi's get angry because the sugar daddies are transferred to desk duty in another area pending an "investigation".  Rumour has it that they can only return to operating their franchise duty after the official auditor has done an assessment of notional losses, attributed appropriate penalties on top of the losses, a bus ticket is purchased and soaked in water (for the smacking of the wrists) and fat brown envelopes are exchanged.

[candide]

Guess which type of officials loan sharks are usually associated with? ????

No way it will work.

[KannikaP]

Just heard an ad on LBC Radio for an Amex Credit Card which charges 96% pa interest. That's a loan whale!

[RotBenz8888]

Just say "there are no loan sharks in Thailand", just as "there are no prostitutes in Pattaya". Problem solved! 

[James105]

2 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

a  crackdown on the idiots  borrowing  beyond their  means would  be  better

Loan sharks are busier at the moment as the government has taken away a lot of peoples ability to earn money, especially those working in the entertainment sector.   Imagine if someone took away all your income and you had no savings.   How long do you think you would last for without needing to borrow money to survive?  

[tomacht8]

3 hours ago, petermik said:

The PM orders crackdowns every other week but nothing ever gets done.....more hot air.

Unfortunately, that's the way it is. The greatest archivment of the PM was the crackdown on state lottery ticket sellers. 

For quite some time, the prices are back to the before crackdown level at 90-120 baht per ticket. TiT 

Edited September 30, 2021 by tomacht8

[Soikhaonoiken]

Heard this many, many times, will never happen to many HiSo & RTP involved.... 

[Will B Good]

4 hours ago, Jimbo2014 said:

Are you calling for a crackdown on crackdowns?  ????

They're mulling over that one.

[Will B Good]

3 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

My missus who is all seeing, all knowing

You as well??

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Daily News quoted RTP spokesman Pol Col Krissana Pattanacharoen as saying that the PM cares about the people and the hardship caused by loan sharks with their high and illegal interest rates and the activities of debt collectors.

People who are unemployed cannot borrow from banks, they need financial help more than the fat cats sitting on billions, so they go to the loan sharks.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, petermik said:

The PM orders crackdowns every other week but nothing ever gets done.....more hot air.

Maybe he could crack down on floods?

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

a  crackdown on the idiots  borrowing  beyond their  means would  be  better

Like the unemployed?

[ronster]

Ah it’s Groundhog Day again !!

[phil2407]

Start at the hospital's judging by today's ruling! ????

[Rampant Rabbit]

4 hours ago, James105 said:

peoples ability to earn money

Is  often  limited  by those very same   people,  when theres  no work they should  do anything workwise,  instead theyve gotten way too comfy over the years thinking it would always be that way.  There is  work, but its work they refuse to do.

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Like the unemployed?

Unemployed or  uneployable

[Grusa]

Do I detect the scaly foot of a male avian TV employee in the composition of this article? 

Or just a lump of uncooked female bread?

[dinsdale]

7 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

My missus (who is all seeing, all knowing, and generally omniscient in respect to the underground lottery, gambling, and loan sharking) insists that the BIB run 90% of the loan sharks, lottery and gambling, and spend 90% of their time hunting down the other 10% who are freelancing without paying the appropriate commissions.

 

You heard it here first.  ????

Yes. My home town/village someone won big time, the copper did a runner.

Edited September 30, 2021 by dinsdale

[rudi49jr]

Wouldn’t a nationwide crackdown on all those in a position of power who abuse that power to enrich themselves be far more effective? Like a war on corruption? But then the PM would order a crackdown on himself and all his cronies, and we can’t have that, can we? 

[Phoenix Rising]

6 minutes ago, rudi49jr said:

Wouldn’t a nationwide crackdown on all those in a position of power who abuse that power to enrich themselves be far more effective? Like a war on corruption? But then the PM would order a crackdown on himself and all his cronies, and we can’t have that, can we? 

Yes, why not a national crackdown on corruption and starting right at the top. No? Didn't think so.

In that case how about a national crackdown on national crackdowns so we wouldn't waste precious seconds of out lives reading about such drivel.