Thailand Live Monday 10 Jun 2013

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Fourteen lions, countless other animals seized during raid on Khlong Sam Wa house
By Coconuts Bangkok

BANGKOK: -- During a raid earlier today on a house in Soi Hatairat 39 in the Khlong Sam Wa district, police found between two and three-hundred wild animals. Among the wildlife seized were 14 lions, tigers, leopards, hornbills and turtles.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645585-14-lions-countless-other-animals-seized-during-raid-on-bangkok-house/

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Iran 'sees no point' in foreign election monitors

TEHRAN: -- Tehran sees no reason to invite international monitors to the upcoming presidential election on June 14, Iran’s Ambassador to Moscow Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi told Russian reporters on Monday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645590-iran-sees-no-point-in-foreign-election-monitors/

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DSI ready to seize assets of VAT fraudsters

BANGKOK, 10 June 2013 (NNT) - The Department of Special Investigation is preparing to seize assets of 30 companies implicated in a large-scale tax fraud.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645616-thailands-d-s-i-accepts-v-a-t-refund-fraud-as-special-case/

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Drunk looking German busted for meth in Phuket
Phuket Gazette


Capt Angkarn inspecting Mr Reister’s passport. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

PHUKET: -- A German national whose inebriated driving style caught police attention on Saturday was arrested in Patong after he failed a drug test and confessed to having drugs in his hotel room.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645604-drunk-looking-german-busted-for-meth-in-phuket/

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Sex-Slave Trader Convicted in Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, June 10 (RIA Novosti) - An Uzbek national has been sentenced to 14 years and six months in prison for human trafficking, after being extradited from Thailand, Uzbek media reported on Monday.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645610-sex-slave-trader-convicted-in-uzbekistan-after-being-extradited-from-thailand/

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DSI asked Krungthai Bank to freeze accounts of 30 firms for fraudulently claiming total of Bt2.6bn in VAT refunds /The Nation

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DSI accepts VAT refund fraud as special case
By Digital Media



BANGKOK, June 10 – The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Monday accepted a case in which 30 private companies allegedly filed Bt2.6 billion in false claims for VAT refund as a special case for further investigation.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645616-thailands-d-s-i-accepts-v-a-t-refund-fraud-as-special-case/

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Thai police discover 14 white lions at Bangkok home

BANGKOK, June 10, 2013 (AFP) - Thai police said Monday they had discovered more than 200 live wild animals including monkeys, tortoises and 14 white lions during a raid on a house in the capital Bangkok.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645585-14-lions-countless-other-animals-seized-during-raid-on-bangkok-house/?p=6493662#entry6493662

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Police find Ekkayuth’s driver, car in Thailand’s South
By English News

BANGKOK, June 10 – The Thai authorities found the driver of missing businessman Ekkayuth Anchanbutr and a closed-circuit camera showed his car on a road in Surat Thani province on Saturday morning, a senior police officer said today.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645474-thai-govt-critic-ekkayuth-feared-abducted/?p=6493702#entry6493702

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Cabinet limits rice pledge price ceiling at Bt500 billion
By English News

KAMPHAENG PHET, June 10 – The cabinet today ordered the Commerce Ministry to strictly abide by the allocated revolving fund of Bt500 billion to buy paddy from farmers under the rice pledging scheme.

The instruction came on the heels of a report by the Bank of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) which said the Bt500 billion revolving fund was exhausting.

The BAAC set aside Bt90 billion loans while Bt410 billion was borrowed from financial institutes. However, there was times when the BAAC had to grant loans above the Bt90 billion ceiling as the Commerce Ministry was waiting to release rice from its stockpiles.

A government spokesman said the rice buying for 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 crops, or as of Dec 31 this year, must not exceed the Bt500 billion ceiling as stipulated by the government.

The Democrat Party spokesman said the rice pledging scheme is ushering Thailand towards disaster, affirming that the opposition’s figures on the government’s massive losses were correct and referable.

He said the Commerce Ministry could not release 16 million tonnes of rice from its stockpiles and could not find enough money to buy paddy from the second harvest.

The BAAC has stopped paying money to farmers while the Commerce Ministry is trying to seek the cabinet’s approval for the BAAC to allocate additional fund for the purchase, the party spokesman said.

He called on the government to urgently call off the rice pledging scheme. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2013-06-10

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Swedish domino effect nets another Phuket drug dealer
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Ms Suvimon and Mr Hasachai under arrest. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645665-swedish-domino-effect-nets-another-phuket-drug-dealer/

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Opposition: Possible bid rigging in water management project
By Digital Media

BANGKOK, June 10 - Thailand's Opposition Party on Monday said bid rigging is likely in the government's ongoing bidding process for the Bt350 billion in water management projects.

Full Story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/645667-opposition-possible-bid-rigging-in-water-management-project/

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RT@BBCBreaking: Nelson #Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela arrives at hospital where he is in serious condition

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