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Luxury Furniture Fuss as State Audit Office Faces Backlash


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15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Social media erupted with statements criticising the SAO, questioning their capacity to audit government spending effectively when their own expenditures appear so unchecked.

 

They are just doing what comes naturally to them. 

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16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

Highlighted among these expenses is a conference chair priced at an astounding 97,900 baht, with 28 chairs purchased solely for two rooms. Additionally, luxury handwoven nylon carpets and leather-upholstered sofas were part of the lavish spending, with carpets in the chairman's office priced at 110,000 baht each

Furniture and luxury fittings bought before the building, it was still in what looked like a skeletal structure?

Someone was jumping the gun with the cheque book

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16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Public reaction has been fierce, with many Thai citizens voicing anger over what they perceive as a blatant misuse of taxpayer funds. Social media erupted with statements criticising the SAO, questioning their capacity to audit government spending effectively when their own expenditures appear so unchecked.

 

Looks like that quake indeed came too early...

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16 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

Just pure corruption !!   is there No due diligence carried out on the tax payers money ??

any body check purchase orders ??  people who are responsible such be prosecuted

 

Corruption?  This is how public money is spent.  Very cushy offices for all these types.  All above board and authorised by... themselves!

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More to be angry about than furniture, such as manslaughter charges. No news about the dead or nationalities, compensation or arrests and charges. seven days is about up.

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Corruption in the construction. Corruption in the Purchasing Department. Corruption among government officials. Corruption in the investigation process as well too maybe? I expect the Chinese company will soon be cleared of all wrongdoing "for a lack of evidence" in exchange for gifts provided by pastry box lorries.

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You all are being to harsh: all that expensive furniture and such was to provide samples of ways money could be corruptly spent. Train those young investigators what to look for...

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'luxury handwoven nylon carpet'  .... 'Luxury' and 'nylon' are not words that I expect to see together. And if it is nylon, who would notice it is hand woven?

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2 hours ago, Ombra said:

'luxury handwoven nylon carpet'  .... 'Luxury' and 'nylon' are not words that I expect to see together. And if it is nylon, who would notice it is hand woven?

Exactly! If, by 'nylon' the author means synthetic fibre then it will almost certainly be machine made.

I should expect the Chairman's office to carpeted in wool based imported from UK 🫠

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4 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

Corruption?  This is how public money is spent.  Very cushy offices for all these types.  All above board and authorised by... themselves!

Not only in Thailand. 

 

I recall an oil giant deciding on a new very high (from memory about 30 floors) regional HQ in a big western city.

 

The primary design approach was a round building, with lots of small and medium size rooms all totally round.

 

When the building was well underway furniture needs were on the agenda and it was then realized that standard square / rectangular tables, desks and whatever would ruin the 'roundness' approach.

 

So individual furniture pieces were ordered to suit each round room (all rooms) all with round sides / round edges etc. 

 

The additional cost was millions and delayed 'move in' by a couple of years meaning that the lease on the existing leased building had to be renegotiated at great cost because the owner had already signed a lease for a new tenant who was all ready to move in. 

 

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