P C C Bosses To Hear Charges On Thursday: New Thai Police Stations

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PCC bosses to hear charges on Thursday
Piyanuch Thamnukasetchai
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- Three executives of PCC Development and Construction are due to acknowledge fraud charges on Thursday for allegedly failing to pay subcontractors for building work on several hundred police stations.

The executives were named yesterday by Tharit Pengdith, head of the Department of Special Investigation. They are Piboon Udomsithikul, Wisanu Wisetsing and Jaturong Udomsithikul.

The probe into alleged bidding collusion had been completed and the matter would be forwarded to the National Anti-Corruption Commission tomorrow, he said.

Pol Lt Colonel Thawal Mangkhang, a DSI special case officer, said the executives would face 20 counts of fraud based on complaints filed against PCC by 20 subcontractors. A conviction on any count could result in a jail term of up to three years.

The DSI would file another charge of violating the State Procurement Act if police decide next week to cancel PCC's contract rather than extend the construction period for it to complete the job. If the contract is cancelled, PCC would be accused of entering an abnormally low bid to win the project but then failing to complete the construction.

A DSI source said the probe into bidding collusion had dug up fairly clear evidence that showed political interference especially concerning a Somchai Wongsawat Cabinet resolution for the project to be split into provincial police regions and for separate auctions to be held for each zone.

The source said former deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban approved bidding by nine regions but then opted to cancel that and approved one centralised tender for all nine regions. That revealed discretionary powers were not based on law, the source alleged.


-- The Nation 2013-03-05

[Locationthailand]

So they did not pay subbies - but where oh where is all the cash they received? Why hasn't DSI got that on the table, I mean its only in the billions ... again... Full quantity survey reports and accountability - ask the question... go on...

[chainarong]

This article tells us nothing , only the names of the PCC bosses, who cares , this happens everyday in Thai , give the meat and veg , not snippets of information, tell us the whole straight story, not DSI version, I have reason to believe crap.

[Thai at Heart]

This article tells us nothing , only the names of the PCC bosses, who cares , this happens everyday in Thai , give the meat and veg , not snippets of information, tell us the whole straight story, not DSI version, I have reason to believe crap.

The source said former deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban approved bidding by nine regions but then opted to cancel that and approved one centralised tender for all nine regions. That revealed discretionary powers were not based on law, the source alleged.

Not that suthep isn't a scrupulously decent bloke, but i think you can understand why all of a sudden, this is news.

[siampolee]

Suthep is indeed somewhat flexible in his political approach to business matters agreed. However remember that revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Suthep was the M.P. who brought down the Banharan government in 1997 by exposing the B.B.C. financial scam and those who had their hands in the till at that time ( indeed a very profitable time for them ) are still around and the greater majority oft hem are in the inner circle of Thaksins brown nosing acolytes.

Whilst as I have said Suthep is shall we say ''shop soiled vis a vis his political and business activities,'' so are many of the accusers who are nothing more than puppets on a string.

Political vendettas can and do last for years here.

[Robby nz]

Now the BKK election has been lost the witch hunt must be cranked up into overdrive.

[rubl]

The source said former deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban approved bidding by nine regions but then opted to cancel that and approved one centralised tender for all nine regions. That revealed discretionary powers were not based on law, the source alleged.

Didn't Dept. PM Suthep change to centralised tended and bidding via the RTPO on request and recommendation of the RTPO with arguments as efficiency, cost effectiveness and so ?

BTW on 2013-02-14 we had Pol Gen Jate Mongkolhatthi who chairs the panel investigating alleged irregularities in the Royal Thai Police Office's (RTPO) project to build 396 police stations nationwide, saying that so far no evidence of corruption was found. He also said that every step of implementing the project, starting from the drafting of the terms of reference (ToR) to the bidding for the construction of the police stations, had been properly examined and certified correct. Of course that was a few weeks ago.