A senior Thai police officer said today that he suspected that the recent CNN report about the export of tens of millions of used medical gloves to the United States, from a firm in Thailand, may be linked to the kidnap of a Taiwanese businessman in Bangkok in March this year.

 

Pol Lt-Gen Chiraphop Phuridet, commissioner of Central Investigation Bureau, told the media today (Wednesday) that police believe that one of the Americans, allegedly involved in the abduction following a failed glove deal, might have tipped off a CNN reporter about sub-standard gloves being exported to the US.

 

American Louis William Ziskin, CEO of a Los Angeles-based tech company, reportedly bought 2.7 million US dollars’ worth of nitrile medical gloves from the “Paddy the Room” trading company in Thailand, managed by Taiwanese businessman Wen Yu Chung, for export to the US last year, but the gloves turned out to be used and repackaged or substandard gloves.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/cnn-report-on-substandard-gloves-from-thailand-may-have-been-provided-by-duped-american/

 

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I admit I was wrong.  Initially I said it would be a Burmese, Laotian or Cambodian, never a Thai.  It turns out it was a Taiwanese or a least he got the blame.  Still part of my prediction was true.  Never a Thai would do such a thing.

What difference does it make who tipped off CNN? 

 

 

^^  Aye   The point being for CNN is that the gloves were substandard (or worse) but marketed and sold as a top grade product, there were a LOT of them, and they came from Thailand.  I'm also pretty sure that CNN would have verified the entire story with probably multiple sources.

46 minutes ago, lujanit said:

It turns out it was a Taiwanese

So a Chinese con man operating out of Bangkok.

The truth is a very rare commodity to come by at any time and in any place the the the US or Thailand are no exceptions...

2 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

What difference does it make who tipped off CNN? 

 

 

Well theyll  need to report someone for bringing Thailands world  renouned great name into disrepute

50 minutes ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

Well theyll  need to report someone for bringing Thailands world  renouned great name into disrepute

One of rhe main rules in thailand is that the problem is not fhe problem. The problem is the person who talks about the problem.

3 hours ago, bluebluewater said:

I'm also pretty sure that CNN would have verified the entire story with probably multiple sources.

Why break a lifelong habit of doing the opposite just for this story?

As we know...a Thai would never do this....

41 minutes ago, poskat said:

One of rhe main rules in thailand is that the problem is not fhe problem. The problem is the person who talks about the problem.

Actually, the problem is being caught out, it's not about being criminal or immoral, it's only about loss of face. 

' “Paddy the Room” trading company'

 

That supplier name fills me with so much confidence.....

 

 

4 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

What difference does it make who tipped off CNN? 

 

 

Typical Thai (Asian) tactic, not uncommon in the West: discredit the messenger.

 

I encountered this often in Thailand. Upon making a claim, the first thing most Thais will want to know is "who" not "what" or "how". If the "who" holds little power, they will attack the "who" and ignore the rest.

5 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

What difference does it make who tipped off CNN? 

 

 

I hate to say it... but "trying to save face" comes to mind.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

A senior Thai police officer said today that he suspected that the recent CNN report about the export

Well it certainly wouldn't have been reported by a senior Thai police officer.

This Police officer is trying to make the American Guy out as some kind of Bad person for " Grassing " on the fraudulent Thai deal.

The Man has done no wrong, and if anything has done the World a favour in exposing this highly dubious deal.

 

Another case of "dirty farang" making Thailand look bad.

4 hours ago, fangless said:

Why break a lifelong habit of doing the opposite just for this story?

True, I would be more inclined to believe if it came from Fox News.

8 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

What difference does it make who tipped off CNN? 

 

 

None at all. 

Don't you know how easy it is to become rich overnight doing import-export business ? Just ask Louis Ziskin.

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As with nearly everything in Thailand, it's the details that matter.  And like with most things, it's the comically inept Thai response that makes a bad thing worse.

 

The CNN story has made quite a bit of national attention on the subject and portrays Thailand as it should be.  Instead of making a half-hearted effort to deal with the bad publicity, the malevolent halfwits running the country attack the source of the information.  CNN, in true form, played into their hands by purposefully leaving out how their main 'protagonist' had been arrested and deported for an attempted kidnapping from Thailand.  The Bangkok Post (or Thai Pravda) reports that this person "sold" the story to CNN....demonstrating that one of the largest media outlets in Thailand doesn't understand that reputable news agencies don't pay for these types of stories.

 

Another forum member in a previous thread about this subject posted a clip of the hotel's closed circuit video of the Taiwanese man being roughed up by the Americans and pulled dragging (and presumably screaming) from the lobby.  The Thai staff are clearly alarmed...and there's one other fine detail.  A Thai cop sitting next to the Taiwanese man, taking it all in and doing nothing.  Then after a filmed SWAT team raid of a hotel room....all are deported from Thailand.

 

Oops....looks like a few 'other' people had their hands in that cookie jar.  Standby for a new 'scheme' to 'lure' medical business to Thailand for a BOI 'incentive'.  

 

Teenage children could manage a better response....

4 minutes ago, Used2LuvThailand said:

As with nearly everything in Thailand, it's the details that matter.  And like with most things, it's the comically inept Thai response that makes a bad thing worse.

 

The CNN story has made quite a bit of national attention on the subject and portrays Thailand as it should be.  Instead of making a half-hearted effort to deal with the bad publicity, the malevolent halfwits running the country attack the source of the information.  CNN, in true form, played into their hands by purposefully leaving out how their main 'protagonist' had been arrested and deported for an attempted kidnapping from Thailand.  The Bangkok Post (or Thai Pravda) reports that this person "sold" the story to CNN....demonstrating that one of the largest media outlets in Thailand doesn't understand that reputable news agencies don't pay for these types of stories.

 

Another forum member in a previous thread about this subject posted a clip of the hotel's closed circuit video of the Taiwanese man being roughed up by the Americans and pulled dragging (and presumably screaming) from the lobby.  The Thai staff are clearly alarmed...and there's one other fine detail.  A Thai cop sitting next to the Taiwanese man, taking it all in and doing nothing.  Then after a filmed SWAT team raid of a hotel room....all are deported from Thailand.

 

Oops....looks like a few 'other' people had their hands in that cookie jar.  Standby for a new 'scheme' to 'lure' medical business to Thailand for a BOI 'incentive'.  

 

Teenage children could manage a better response....

Who was deported, the SWAT team? 

Just now, Artisi said:

Who was deported, the SWAT team? 

I can see why you're a 'star' member here....could you please check my spelling and grammar?

2 minutes ago, Used2LuvThailand said:

I can see why you're a 'star' member here....could you please check my spelling and grammar?

If you think it needs attention, just let me know ????

Leaving aside who was behind this scam and their nationality, the practicalities of recycling used medical gloves doesn’t add up.

Presumably when produced they are manufactured and packed by machine.

Any I have ever seen used in hospitals are discarded into bins.

Has somehow been scouring hospitals to recover them?

Are they then cleaned, returned to their original shape and re packed?

Doesnt make economical sense to me even in low cost Thailand.

On 10/29/2021 at 10:46 AM, StevieAus said:

Doesnt make economical sense to me even in low cost Thailand.

A disturbing image is that of a glove formerly being used to check a prostate, later putting those cotton wool cylinders into your mouth for some dental work!