Corruption and border smuggling linked to the Muno blast in Narathiwat. Call for top-level probe

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Anti-corruption activist Atchariya Ruangrattanapong outlined his concerns to reporters on Thursday. He has called for a top-level police task force to investigate all the circumstances surrounding the Muno blast last Saturday in which 12 people died with 300 properties destroyed, together with people’s livelihoods in the Muno district of Narathiwat which he has linked with corruption and illegality.

Anti-corruption campaigner wants the activities of the trading firm at the heart of the explosion last Saturday in Muno investigated by a high-powered police task force directed from Bangkok. He is concerned with a lack of licensing, safety standards and evidence of illegal activity supported by corrupt police officials and local politicians.

One of the country’s leading anti-corruption campaigners has called for a top-level police task force led by Deputy Police Chief General Surachate Hakparn to be appointed to probe the Muno fireworks explosion which killed 12 people in Narathiwat province on Saturday and devastated an entire community. Atchariya Ruangrattanapong believes that the company responsible for the explosion was engaged in cross-border smuggling and lacked the required permissions to handle the dangerous stock of fireworks, imported from China, which left the busy Muno market in Narathiwat and the surrounding area razed to the ground after the devastating blast.

 

One of the country’s leading anti-corruption campaigners is calling for Deputy National Police Chief General Surachate Hakparn to be sent to Narathiwat province to investigate circumstances surrounding the massive explosion on Saturday which killed 12 people and razed to the ground the settlement centred on the Muno market in the same district of the province.

 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2023/08/04/corruption-smuggling-linked-to-muno-blast-activists-calls-for-big-joke-surachate-hapkarn/

 

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[ChrisY1]

"safety standards and evidence of illegal activity supported by corrupt police officials and local politicians."

 

Sounds about normal.....cops and politicians corrupt

[hotchilli]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

He is concerned with a lack of licensing, safety standards and evidence of illegal activity supported by corrupt police officials and local politicians.

The true Thailand.

[Andycoops]

Corruption here in Thailand, surely there has been a misunderstanding...