By Erich Parpart

Thailand’s underground economy of betting and gambling was valued at more than 1 trillion Baht prompting the country’s system to be as corrupt it is at the moment; the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came out to say during his bi-weekly talk on Clubhouse.

 

Thaksin, who lives in self exile in United Arab Emirates, came out to also mention how low the price of methamphetamine has gone in Thailand, which he said was costing a mere 2 Baht a pill, according to the latest drug bust.

 

“Do you know why it cost 2 Baht? It was because there was no production cost and they are reselling evidence,” he said. “They have been seizing drugs left and right but how come they are not burning them?”

 

Full story: https://www.thaienquirer.com/45697/thaksin-claims-thailands-underground-economy-is-more-than-1-trillion-baht-while-warns-prayut-from-joining-new-political-outfits/

 

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Wow, Thaksin can read. That book was published in 1998.

 

Maybe he should mention what he did against corruption and the underground business while he was in charge. Did he fight them? Or did he use them for his own power?

 

 

I concur with his view on the drug trade and the non burning of the evidence. Has anyone ever seen them destroying the evidence by a burn? Where has it all gone, huge amounts seized, but never a followup story showing the disposal....that huge, now fake Fentanyl bust is a prime example.

14 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I concur with his view on the drug trade and the non burning of the evidence. Has anyone ever seen them destroying the evidence by a burn? Where has it all gone, huge amounts seized, but never a followup story showing the disposal....that huge, now fake Fentanyl bust is a prime example.

I've seen stories once or twice a year of the BiB burning drug evidence. It wouldn't surprise me if the actual evidence was swapped for innocuous substances and the real stuff shuttled out the back door and resold. I have personally witnessed a place where guns were confiscated by BiB during the week and sold at a farmer's market on the weekends.

Asean Now's  poster boy is mouthing off again from afar.

 

Man does loves to see his name and face in the news. Isn't he a bit irrelevant now?

Well Thaksin would know all about corruption.  He fled the country to evade justice after conviction on corruption charges.

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I concur with his view on the drug trade and the non burning of the evidence. Has anyone ever seen them destroying the evidence by a burn? Where has it all gone, huge amounts seized, but never a followup story showing the disposal....that huge, now fake Fentanyl bust is a prime example.

Why burn when you can sell it...

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Wow, Thaksin can read. That book was published in 1998.

 

Maybe he should mention what he did against corruption and the underground business while he was in charge. Did he fight them? Or did he use them for his own power?

 

 

This is now...2022....not 2006

5 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

sold at a farmer's market on the weekends.

Really? That sounds like a statement pulled from the air. Where is the evidence? What market?

11 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Really? That sounds like a statement pulled from the air. Where is the evidence? What market?

555! Yeah, like I'm gonna give THOSE kind of details on a forum like this.

22 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

555! Yeah, like I'm gonna give THOSE kind of details on a forum like this.

So you have nothing to back up your claims, yet it is one of many possibilities people will spout.

16 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

So you have nothing to back up your claims, yet it is one of many possibilities people will spout.

I saw it, I have NO reason to BS, you are just an argument looking for a venue.

3 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

I saw it, I have NO reason to BS, you are just an argument looking for a venue.

No argument, I just asked you for evidence to back up your claim.  Enjoy.

The only reason Thaksin is still relevant is due to the spectacularly low quality of the current batch of chumps. Prayuth can switch parties all he wants. He will still be reviled, despised and incapable of leadership.

 

Fresh blood is needed. Youthful and full of ideas. The polar opposite of an extinct dinosaur. 

The guy should know he stole billions he left the country and he lives the life he knows everything is to know about corruption in Thailand TIT

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaksin, who lives in self exile in United Arab Emirates, came out to also mention how low the price of methamphetamine has gone in Thailand, which he said was costing a mere 2 Baht a pill, according to the latest drug bust.

10 THB out in the sticks where I live from what my wife tells me.  This s**te is pretty well know among villagers.  Most people are anti-yaa-baa.  2 THB a pill.  BS. 
But?
Most people are also anti-summary-execution for suspicion of using/selling yaa baa.  Too many innocent people get whacked.  Best for Thaksin to stay in Dubai.

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Fresh blood is needed. Youthful and full of ideas. The polar opposite of an extinct dinosaur. 

Yet anytime new blood surfaces?  Their party's are declared illegal and the leaders thrown in jail.

This is called "Democracy."

10 hours ago, webfact said:

“Do you know why it cost 2 Baht? It was because there was no production cost and they are reselling evidence,” he said. “They have been seizing drugs left and right but how come they are not burning them?”

Surely, as an ex RTP Lt Colonel, unusually rich, he would know the answer to that?

11 hours ago, lujanit said:

Well Thaksin would know all about corruption.  He fled the country to evade justice after conviction on corruption charges.

Brought by the military coup government that ousted him and had control of the justice system.

22 hours ago, webfact said:

“Do you know why it cost 2 Baht? It was because there was no production cost and they are reselling evidence,” he said. “They have been seizing drugs left and right but how come they are not burning them?”

Recycling the RTP way..

21 hours ago, bang saen guy said:

Man does loves to see his name and face in the news. Isn't he a bit irrelevant now?

Depends on what news he's breaking... 

It took Chuwit to open his mouth and get rich Chinese out of the picture..

Thaksin may be afar but he knows what's going on here.

Corruption to the very top.

On 11/9/2022 at 7:06 AM, AgMech Cowboy said:

Really? That sounds like a statement pulled from the air. Where is the evidence? What market?

NAME IT AND WE WILL GO ON A TREASURE HUNT WITH GOOGLE MAPS.????

On 11/9/2022 at 10:35 AM, lujanit said:

Well Thaksin would know all about corruption.  He fled the country to evade justice after conviction on corruption charges.

Justice?

You think the Thai courts deliver justice.

How laughably quaint of you.

 

Why is it that instead of condemning the corruption being called out, you instead obsess about Thaksin?

 

Regardless of whether the nonsense you believe about Thaksin is true or false (it’s false) - why cannot you bring yourself to condemn the rampant corruption CURRENTLY being inflicted upon the country.

 

But, but Thaksin - ????????????

A great deal of which is illicit drugs, especially the ones they hate and fear most. 

 

When they wake up and realise all the hardest drugs result in less deaths (including mass murders) in a year than the roads in any given week, maybe the penny will finally drop.

Edited November 10, 20223 yr by chalawaan

On 11/9/2022 at 1:11 PM, Orinoco said:

Asean Now's  poster boy is mouthing off again from afar.

 

Poster boy is spot on, anyone would think he is a  major shareholder. 

On 11/9/2022 at 9:35 AM, lujanit said:

Well Thaksin would know all about corruption.  He fled the country to evade justice after conviction on corruption charges.

He messed up big time with the rice-pledging scheme. But let's remember he was the first democratically elected prime minister of Thailand to serve a full term and was re-elected in 2005 by an overwhelming majority.

 

He was good for business and the economy, whatever his foibles.

I doubt the massive scale of corruption of the present (and unelected) junta "government" of this country will ever come to light. They are holding a gun to the head of the media, and silencing dissent by any means necessary.