The head of the Marine Police Division, Major General Pruetthipong Nutchanart, has been moved to the Central Investigation Bureau’s (CIB) operation center. This move follows an ongoing investigation into the disappearance of three seized boats carrying around 330,000 liters of diesel. These vessels had been berthed at Sattahip pier before vanishing on June 11th.

 

The CIB Commissioner, Lieutenant General Jirabhop Bhuridej, ordered this temporary reassignment. Four other officials from the Sattahip Marine Police, including the superintendent, had already been relocated two days after the disappearance of the boats, named JP, Sea Hot and Dao Rung. The boats were loaded with 80,000, 150,000 and 100,000 liters of smuggled diesel respectively.

 

Colonel Pornsak Laoruchiralai, from the Crime Suppression Division, has been temporarily designated to lead the Marine Police Division until the investigation concludes.

 

 

The Marine Police launched a large-scale search for the missing vessels initially headed for Cambodia, but they surprisingly diverted to Malaysian waters.

 

With the assistance of Malaysian officials, the boats were later found in Malaysia’s Exclusive Economic Zone and were towed back to Songkhla province's Marine Police pier.

 

Sources from the Marine Police revealed that the diesel on the three recaptured boats had already been sold off prior to their recovery.

 

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-- 2024-07-08

 

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This comes as a total surprise to me. 

Corruption, runs deeper than the Mariana Trench in Thailand. 

I will really start to pay more attentions to such articles of theft when the Grand Palace or the  Temple of the Emerald Buddha

will be nicked with no one know where they're, other than that, this is business as usual in Thailand...

 

Boats!! what boats?? 

Is that a ship in your pocket 🤔

How can boats that size, of all things go missing?

 

Does thailand have its bermuda triangle?

 

Thailand hub of triangles

Seriously how does one simply make off with 3 enormous tankers filled with oil without anyone noticing?