Police On The Fiddle

[cojones]

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Another fine mess

Phuket Gazette

BANGKOK: Unscrupulous police officers extorting money from the public

hardly constitutes news in Thailand – but it is noteworthy when the

police themselves become victims of malfeasance.

Between March and October this year, Pol Sgt Tarntip Preak-kratok

managed to skim off nearly 3 million baht in fines collected by the

Nongkam Police Station, where she was employed as a desk clerk.

The probe followed months of requests to inspect the station's

accounting records, but Sgt Tarnthip kept stalling the investigators

by telling them that the records were not up to date yet.

Finally, on November 1, investigators arranged a meeting with Sgt

Tarnthip. When they arrived they found that she had absconded.

Checking the records she had left behind, the investigators discovered

that she had been helping herself to 90,000 baht a week.

The errant sergeant was found just four days later in her home

province of Kanchanaburi – perhaps indicating why she had never

climbed up the police ranks to the position of investigator – and was

taken into custody.

Like many women who steal and then head straight home with the money,

Sgt Tarnthip, 31, had a tale of woe for the arresting officers. She

admitted to embezzling the police money, but told investigators she

had done it only to help her husband of eight years, Somboon.

"We had a lot of expenses. He told me that he had lost his boss's car

in Chon Buri and needed 1 million baht to cover it. He had also killed

people, so we needed money to keep him out of prison. He told me, too,

that he had invested in a crocodile farm and lost the money. But it

was all a pack of lies."

Despite all the help she had given him in his time of difficulty,

hubby Somboon (whose name means "Perfect") did not respond in kind.

When his wife became the target of the police hunt, he simply

disappeared.

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Source: http://www.phuketgazette.com

[udon]

This is toooo much ! A crocodile farm

Despite all the help she had given him in his time of difficulty,

hubby Somboon (whose name means "Perfect") did not respond in kind.

When his wife became the target of the police hunt, he simply

disappeared.

Thai Cons Thai ........ Somboon's no fool, he got the 3million and pithed off..... Perfect!

[Thetyim]

So what is she doing now,

looking for a falang ?

[marquess]

They won't be getting any sympathy from me!

[kat]

So what is she doing now,

looking for a falang ?

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[Dickie]

So what is she doing now,

looking for a falang ?

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Soapland is currently churning out a right bunch of berks so maybe she'll be lucky and find herself a pre-con model.

[Backpack_thailand]

Having just read this story, I laughed my ass off!

Crocodile farm...?? And she believed it all, ha, ha, ha, ha!

I wonder if I can get my missus to start nicking money from her boss...

"..er, teerak, I've just spunked our life savings on a company that was trying to develop "oven ready ice cream"...can you get me out the shit..??

Ha, ha, ha! I LOVE IT!