Head of crackdown on trade in unripe durian blames transfer on unscrupulous traders

[webfact]

Chonlatee Numnoo, head of the “Leb Yiew” (hawk’s claw) task force and director of 6th regional office of the Office of Agricultural Research and Development

The head of a task force, responsible for cracking down on the trade in unripe durian, claims that his abrupt transfer was engineered by a group of unscrupulous durian exporters, following his unit’s success in restoring the reputation of Thai durian, which had been tainted by unripe fruit entering the market.

 

Chonlatee Numnoo, head of the “Leb Yiew” (hawk’s claw) task force and director of 6th regional office of the Office of Agricultural Research and Development, told Thai PBS that his reassignment to director of the Plant Standard and Certification Division is neither an off-season transfer nor a move to fill a vacant post, but a swop of positions “without prior notification or discussion.”

 

He claims that his transfer might affect the operations of the task force, which has been cracking down on the trade in unripe fruit for the past two years.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/head-of-crackdown-on-trade-in-unripe-durian-blames-transfer-on-unscrupulous-traders/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-10-26

 

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[PPGuy]

This smells to high heaven.........

[Orinoco]

Sounds like someone didn't toe the corrupt line.

with the fruit with aroma,  straight from Satan's bottom.

 

 

[Don Chance]

I wonder if they are using chemicals to ripen the durian?

 

 

[IAMHERE]

Good luck dealing with any corruption in Asean nations.

[Srikcir]

Namnoo sounds like he's lucky to still be alive to have any Thai government job. Or be sued into poverty under civil and criminal defamation laws.

Thailand does not have "dedicated whistleblower protection" legislation.

[hotchilli]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

He claims that his transfer might affect the operations of the task force, which has been cracking down on the trade in unripe fruit for the past two years.

You see, this it what happens to you if you're good at your job in Thailand.. 

Corruption rules.

[seajae]

brown envelopes appears to be changing hands to stop this man from coming downon  the  illegal sales, once again the govt appears to be doing the rich's bidding to stop them making money from illegal sales, more thai graft in action