They Don't Even Hide Their Corruption Here.

[Brewster67]

Talk about in your face police corruption.

 

Myself and my wife build bespoke websites for the Thai market, mostly based on the cryptospace and NFTs.

 

We were in phase 1 of building a very complex NFT site that has a budget of 8 million baht.

 

The customer is Thai but was raised and mostly educated for 12 years in the UK. So he has been incredibly easy to work for.

 

Anyway, here is what has happened with this guy over the past days. 

 

All our work comes from 2 agents who find the work and pass in onto us... One of the agents responsible for this particular job called us last night to tell us the customer is in prison and to hold the project for now... We then get another call with the details of what has happened. 

 

Apparently our customer who is pretty well off and owns a string of high end BKK restaurants, had a 50/50 partner for this project who was supposed to be stumping up half the cost of the website. For the sake of ease I will call him 'client'; and his partner 'partner'.

 

Now we started this site a few weeks ago, and the client paid us the 20% deposit (1.6 mil). But now the partner has decided to pull out, which clearerly pi55ed off the client who then went round to his partner's house with a gun to obviously change his mind. Now I don't know all the exact details, but it seems the client had him at gunpoint and demanded the entire 4 million. I don't know if any money was handed over or what arrangements were made. But it seems the partner called the police whom arrested the client and locked him up.

 

Now as far as I am aware, the client is still in prison but still in contact with the agent and the situation is that the police have decided that the partner must pay 2 million baht to the client or they will make sure he goes to court and the judge will force him to pay the whole 4 million, the police will make sure that happens.... Then for the client to get out of prison and make all this go away, he has to give the 2 million to the police boss.

 

Now I have been here for 12 years already and so I am not surprised in the slightest at how this has all unfolded, in fact most of you reading this would have had a good idea how all this was going to play out....  what I am surprised with however is the openness of all of this. Absolutely no attempt to have this all hush hush, under the table theatrics you would expect anywhere else. 

 

Well.... I don't know what is happening with the project now, all I care about is my expenses are well covered, the agent has his cut of the 1.6 mil and we have a contract that says if he cancels in mid-project, all money paid is forfeit. ????

 

Anyone else experienced such naked corruption?

 

 

[CharlieH]

Hearsay, he said she said gossip, Unsubstantiated and although entertaining, cannot stand.

 

CLOSED/.

 

 

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