"Oh there's 3 million baht in the brown envelope" - how did that get there!

[NoDisplayName]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

He had 3.2 million baht in an envelope.

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

They went to the police and set up a sting that involved the handing over of the money in the Thung Phraya area hotel and the suspect's subsequent arrest outside.

 

 

i assume the authorities entered the full 2.2 million baht into evidence.

[terryofcrete]

1 hour ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Must have been a huge envelope!

A sack ! 

[CANSIAM]

I think there are containers full in Phuket not just sacks and big envelopes for Russian dealings with agents and Immigration........????

[BKKBike09]

1 hour ago, Denim said:

Big envelope.. That's 3200 x1000 baht notes.

 

Pretty hard to miss.

Indeed. This is a better picture. Hard to claim "I thought it was documents" ...

 

Surprised he didn't have some fawning lower-level apparatchik with him to do the literal 'heavy lifting'. I didn't think pooyai ever carried their own bags.

 

I wonder if he'll be charged with 3,200 counts of bribery, one for each note? 

 

[malthebluff]

Well done to the company who went to the police if more did this then maybe just maybe with a little hope thrown in then corruption will go down 

[Reigntax]

By the time the contents of the envelope filter down, he will be charged with receiving B100k and because it was such a minor amount, we will never hear about it again 

[realfunster]

Just now, malthebluff said:

Well done to the company who went to the police if more did this then maybe just maybe with a little hope thrown in then corruption will go down 

Would be nice to see who the company was. And yes, you are absolutely correct, if more people did this then things might just start to change.

I guess a reasonable chance it was a foreign company, many of whom are operating under anti-bribery regulations. Could have been a Thai company but they would need to have the right connection to be brave enough to do something directly against a government official like this. 

 

As others have commented, unfortunately it's endemic here. 

Those butter-wouldn't-melt government officials, who are generally held in high regard within Thai society, are amongst the worst offenders. I have heard many stories that would make your toes curl at how much some of them cream off the top of budgets or like this guy, by offering to remove a problem, with the right  backhander. 

[BangkokKnights]

They cant put him in jail because they'd need to build another 150 jails to hold all the corrupt officials cops and generals.

Thailand  has gone backwards in the last 20years not forward.

[Clarkey611]

And to whom was the very big brown envelope addressed?

[Dan O]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Notice how many of these cases we are seeing all of a sudden, just prior to the election. As if we are being asked to believe ChaCha and the cops are sincere about fighting corruption. 

 

8 years too late. You had ample time to demonstrate an interest in cleaning the place up. We all know who and what you are. 

The sad part is the news media seldom if ever follow up on these cases so the end result isn't public in the majority of them. The just keep plowing forward as a new case will pop up in a day or two and the old ones will vanishinto the ether 

[Salerno]

10 minutes ago, Clarkey611 said:

And to whom was the very big brown envelope addressed?

"To whom it may concern", sneaky huh ????

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I am willing to bet his creep will never see the inside of a prison cell. Probably won't even lose his job.

What makes you think that, anything to base it on?

[KCPhuket]

Must have been a BIG ENVELOPE!

[Xonax]

I hope that there will also be a proper check, if he or his family have gained any unusual wealth in the past years.

[Liverpool Lou]

7 minutes ago, KCPhuket said:

Must have been a BIG ENVELOPE!

Gawd...    

[metisdead]

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[Seeall]

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Really? So they set up the sting for fun and the corrupt judges will say it was all a misunderstanding and send him back to his office desk. Really?

I think you might lose your bet,

I think its just another case of where justice not served and they just get moved around whatever.. so the bet could be in the bag... do for fun?  sure.... if it furthers their careers/possible acumilation of a smaller brown envelope.. why not...  as for the point of justice?  what?  

[Bangkok Barry]

16 minutes ago, Seeall said:

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Really? So they set up the sting for fun and the corrupt judges will say it was all a misunderstanding and send him back to his office desk. Really?

I think you might lose your bet,

I think its just another case of where justice not served and they just get moved around whatever.. so the bet could be in the bag... do for fun?  sure.... if it furthers their careers/possible acumilation of a smaller brown envelope.. why not...  as for the point of justice?  what?  

Give it up before you dig the hole too deep.

[HuaHinHim]

7 hours ago, stoner said:

another thai tradition to be proud of eh. 

 

also deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny ....what a complete clown culture this place is. 

It’s empirical. People had it done to them and then it’s their turn to pay it forward. Not saying it’s right, just how it is how it has been and for some how it always will be. I used to think it would be the current generation that would sort it out but I think I’m being overly optimistic. It’s going to take a bit more than that

[SGD]

No-one upsets the apple cart because they are waiting for their turn at the trough and like the police, people have to pay to get into a position where they can abuse the system.

 

There is no end to it because for example, take the police. The official salary is nothing, 10/20k a month but they have to pay hundreds of thousands to get into the police. So say you've paid yesterday and they end corruption today, how do you pay back the money you borrowed to get into the police ?

 

If you are already on the gravy train, making a few million a year, how do you get out because you cannot go back to a salary of 20k a month.

 

There is no way out of this.

[stoner]

2 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

You either fit in with it, or go home.

Simple.

wait so you are a clown too then ? 

 

another if you don't like it get out crowd. predictable. 

[Gknrd]

Scams, Murder, Corruption. I think Thailand has joined the first world country status now. 

[OneMoreFarang]

Let's wait if he will be prosecuted and if he will go to jail.

In a world where he is just one of those people, I am sure there are others who don't want that he gives lots of details to the authorities... 

[soalbundy]

I was about to bring this money to the police, this company has attempted to bribe me, me an honest civil servant, you've got here just in time to arrest them, here is the evidence.

That would be my first response then let my lawyer provide further smoke screens.

[DJ54]

The guy could say there was no brown bag ( it was white) successfully negotiating the not truth machine… 555

[bristolgeoff]

Opps what happened they boss,you never told me money was in the brown evenlope

[transam]

Just now, bristolgeoff said:

Opps what happened they boss,you never told me money was in the brown evenlope

I think the cash was in a trendy girlie brand name carrier bag.....????

[metisdead]

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[phetphet]

10 hours ago, ezzra said:

It had to be the mother of all envelops to contain 3 million plus baht and to think it was 'document', anyway, this guy will re think many times in his how he could have done differently and get busted like an amateur.

He should have sent a go between. That's how it's normally done.

[RickyJB]

What size of envelope big enough to contain that amount of money? Sure it wasnt a sleeping bag?