How Klong Dan project gushed from pollution solution to corruption torrent to expensive lesson

[webfact]

 

The controversial Klong Dan wastewater treatment project has made headlines at regular intervals over the past three decades. News reports initially described the plant as a solution to water pollution, then the “mother of all corruption cases”, and now an expensive lesson.

 

The government has poured more than 20 billion baht into the Klong Dan project – which has never gone into operation – and will now be required to pay nearly 30 billion baht more to constructor NVPSKG in what has been described as a “stupidity fee”.

 

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Senior political-office holders and civil servants have been convicted of wrongdoing in relation to the project, as have NVPSKG executives.

 

Long and murky history

 

After Samut Prakan was declared a pollution-control zone in 1994, Suwat Liptapanlop – then the science, technology and environment minister – pushed hard to launch a large wastewater treatment project in the riverside province. But before his initiative could win approval, the House was dissolved for a general election.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/how-klong-dan-project-gushed-from-pollution-solution-to-corruption-torrent-to-expensive-lesson/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-03-26

 

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[ChrisY1]

Similar goings on are never far away here....once the smell of truck loads of free money are sniffed out...it doesn't take long for the rot to set in. 

An encyclopedia could be written, outlining corruption scams over the past 50 years...and most scams, like Klong Dan, would never have an ending

Edited March 26, 2022 by ChrisY1

[worgeordie]

"Vatana was slapped with a 10-year jail term in absentia after fleeing overseas. He remains a fugitive from justice."

Living openingly in Cambodia ,if he is still alive. This and the Hopewell project

2 expensive failures for Thailand , while some people did very well out of it all.

regards Worgeordie

[Will B Good]

Told this story a couple of times on here, but it bears repeating....

 

Local dam being built, all employees have to hand in their bank books and passwords if they wanted work.

 

Managers allocate overtime payments to the workers, which isn't worked, and then claim those overtime payments back out of the workers bank accounts for themselves.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The government has poured more than 20 billion baht into the Klong Dan project – which has never gone into operation – and will now be required to pay nearly 30 billion baht more to constructor NVPSKG in what has been described as a “stupidity fee”.

Rotten to the core... but they do say where there's muck there's brass.

 

[brianthainess]

On 3/26/2022 at 9:57 AM, webfact said:

After Samut Prakan was declared a pollution-control zone in 1994

I lived in Samut Prakan in 2020 my car was covered in black soot every morning.