A senior customs official and seven fish merchants have been arrested by police and customs officials for involvement in the trading of 132 tonnes of frozen fish, which was impounded in 2019 after being seized from a Somalian fishing vessel suspected of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU).

 

At a joint press conference today (Thursday), Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, the deputy national police chief, and Patchara Anuntasilpa, director-general of the Customs Department, said that a total of 147 tonnes of frozen fish, contained in seven cargo containers, were impounded after the skipper of the vessel could not produce documents to prove the origin of the fish.

 

According to customs procedures, the impounded fish could be sold to state officials or to people in the neighbourhood of the port where the fish in containers were kept, but not to merchants.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/8-people-including-a-customs-official-arrested-for-selling-147-tonnes-of-impounded-fish/

 

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Hakparn really is a bit of a local LEO legend. 

 

And I'm not talking about his ability to toast his own impressive success.

 

He's the Jack Regan of Thailand. 

 

 

Edited June 15, 20233 yr by chalawaan

what the hey......business is business. 

It's only considered illegal and unethical because the big wigs were left outta their cut. 

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

According to customs procedures, the impounded fish could be sold to state officials or to people in the neighbourhood of the port where the fish in containers were kept, but not to merchants.

Legal corruption?

This fish has been sitting around for 4  years like some local highway project. What ineptitude. 

Funny, the issue is not they sold the fish, but they sold it to merchants !

For cods sake its years old are they mental get your skates on an skip it ????

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

ccording to customs procedures, the impounded fish could be sold to state officials or to people in the neighbourhood of the port where the fish in containers were kept, but not to merchants.

Let me see if I understand this correctly. If it could not be sold to merchants, how could the police sell them without becoming merchants themselves. 

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

According to customs procedures, the impounded fish could be sold to state officials or to people in the neighbourhood

Hello neighbors, wanna buy 147 tons of frozen fish?

Edited June 16, 20233 yr by klauskunkel

So something fishy going on.

Edited June 16, 20233 yr by ignore it
Requisite pun.

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

According to customs procedures, the impounded fish could be sold to state officials or to people in the neighbourhood of the port where the fish in containers were kept, but not to merchants

But what if the merchant lives in 'yer hood man.  

Does this only apply to fish? state officials on the make? Shirly noot

 

All seems a bit of a red herring to me!

2019? One can only hope for the consumers that the cold chain was maintained completely uninterrupted over four years.

Edited June 16, 20233 yr by tomacht8