City council chairman arrested for alleged involvement in extortion

BANGKOK: -- City council chairman Phipat Larbpratthana was held in police custody under the martial law for suspicion of involvement in extortion racket.

Military police booked Mr Phipat after several vendors at Wat Hua Lamphong complained to the military that they were forced to pay under-the-table fees to city officials, including Mr Phipat, in exchange for the right to trade on the pavements in front of the temple without being harassed by municipal police.

The vendors claimed that a Mr Supachai Wongthiranuparb would collect the fees said to be electricity charge from the vendors and gave them to Mr Prasert Prommee, an advisor to the Bangrak district council, who later on sent the money to Mr Phipat.

The vendors claimed that they had to pay 200 baht a day for a one square metre speace on the pavement and 20 baht a day for electricity charge. On public holidays, there is an addition of 100 baht a day for each stall.

Mr Phipat denied all the accusations against him by the vendors but admitted that he knew Prasert who was earlier held in custody and reportedly implicated him for involvement in the extortion racket.

The city council chairman was later handed over by the military police to the Crime Suppression Division police.

Pol Col Prasobchok Prommoon, deputy commander of the CSD, said that Mr Phipat would be detained for further questioning under the martial law. Extortion and illegal organization charges will be lodged against him if the accusations against him are grounded.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/city-council-chairman-arrested-alleged-involvement-extortion/

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One down, many more to go....

The army have done more in the last few weeks to try and clear up what's wrong with this country than any politicians have, lets hope they carry on with the good work.

Now this is populism the way I like it!

Tip of the Iceberg but good work being done now.  Lets hope it has a lot of other scumbags shivering in their boots waiting for whose next.

It looks like all laws are being enforced and corruption is slowly being eradicated.
Phuket beaches being cleared, bar closing time enforced, immigration loopholes being closed, officials being arrested .....
I wonder what is next ?

He is a shining light for young people aspiring  to have a career in the murky world of politics. Then again in Australia Newcastle s Mayor has admitted to taking cash .Different country same sh&t. They really cannot be trusted.

Another rotten apple falls........but it's like there's a forest of apple trees here

Tip of the Iceberg but good work being done now.  Lets hope it has a lot of other scumbags shivering in their boots waiting for whose next.

 

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Military police booked Mr Phipat.

 

Looks like a new, cleaner Plod on the block. BIB, take a seat the BIG are cleaning the streets.

 

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Military police booked Mr Phipat.

 

Looks like a new, cleaner Plod on the block. BIB, take a seat the BIG are cleaning the streets.

 

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Call me old fashioned if you will, but maybe , just maybe, their job is made easier if they're toting mini uzi's with folding stocks instead of a pair of pristine white gloves 

The army have done more in the last few weeks to try and clear up what's wrong with this country than any politicians have, lets hope they carry on with the good work.

The politicians were the biggest part of the problem,with them gone 

things are been done and seen to be done,just hope they continue

to put right the many problems that Thailand has.

regards Worgeordie

So the chain is: 

Vendors -> Mr Supachai (collector) -> Mr Prasert, an advisor to the Bangrak district council  -> Mr Phipat, City Council Chairman -> XYZ.

 

I want to know who is next in the chain (XYZ) - i.e. with whom Mr Phipat shares his money - either a more senior corrupt official, or did he make contributions to a group/organisation?

 

It seems that Mr Prasert squealed - he'll probably retract his statement when his family is contacted by some heavies.

One down, many more to go....

 

The problem is that the army is too friendly...Thai style.

Take him for 1 week, speak with him, make him understand that he did wrong, let him promise to not do it again.

 

Real thing would be to take all his assets and the assets he hide with his family.

And behead him or put him in jail for 200 years.

 

Everything else is just cosmetic.....

"Military police booked Mr Phipat after several vendors at Wat Hua Lamphong complained to the military that they were forced to pay under-the-table fees to city officials, including Mr Phipat, in exchange for the right to trade on the pavements in front of the temple without being harassed by municipal police."

So would the harassment from the municipal police be because they aren't supposed to be trading on the pavement?

It is seldom enough to be highlighted! The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'! When that's not 'reconciliation', you tell me! I don't know Mr Phipat, I hate corruption, but this makes me angry. Anyone actually knowing Mr Phipat here, having a clue of what happend? No need, it was in the papers so it's true, let's have a lynching party, hang him high, now! Well, I'd rather wait, to see whether the man is proven guilty, or whether he has been framed by black pots. Maybe just because I wouldn't like to see a donkey's ass looking at me in the mirror, when and if in the end it would show he was innocent...

It is seldom enough to be highlighted! The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'! When that's not 'reconciliation', you tell me! I don't know Mr Phipat, I hate corruption, but this makes me angry. Anyone actually knowing Mr Phipat here, having a clue of what happend? No need, it was in the papers so it's true, let's have a lynching party, hang him high, now! Well, I'd rather wait, to see whether the man is proven guilty, or whether he has been framed by black pots. Maybe just because I wouldn't like to see a donkey's ass looking at me in the mirror, when and if in the end it would show he was innocent...

 

If he's guilty.... and I don't know Khun Phipat who has been arrested and charged. He hasn't been found guilty yet. Maybe he's not guilty? Does anyone have any information on what actually happened?

 

"The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'!"

 

There is only one color now and it's green, or so it would seem.

One down, many more to go....

not down yet,,, next week they may set him free through lack of evidence.. I have seen some arrests but as yet no big heads have rolled to my knowledge.

 

Time will tell,,

Got to know a great Dutch guy on Sukhumvit in Bangkok who had a mobile bar, he offered to sell it to me and during our chat he told me he paid 3 different extortionists to stay in place and he reckoned it would have been more if it hadnt been for his Thai wife.

 

How much are these officials making?

Said in movie Casablanca,  "I am shocked, shocked that this"...... is going on.

How about starting with the police.A tourist police captain told me she had to pay 100,000 Baht to get her position despite passing out of university with top marks,no bribe,no job.

It is seldom enough to be highlighted! The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'! When that's not 'reconciliation', you tell me! I don't know Mr Phipat, I hate corruption, but this makes me angry. Anyone actually knowing Mr Phipat here, having a clue of what happend? No need, it was in the papers so it's true, let's have a lynching party, hang him high, now! Well, I'd rather wait, to see whether the man is proven guilty, or whether he has been framed by black pots. Maybe just because I wouldn't like to see a donkey's ass looking at me in the mirror, when and if in the end it would show he was innocent...

Yeah right,the police arrested a big boy on a hunch, right ? The fear of being sued in this country is high,to have arrested this man they had to be certain.

 

It is seldom enough to be highlighted! The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'! When that's not 'reconciliation', you tell me! I don't know Mr Phipat, I hate corruption, but this makes me angry. Anyone actually knowing Mr Phipat here, having a clue of what happend? No need, it was in the papers so it's true, let's have a lynching party, hang him high, now! Well, I'd rather wait, to see whether the man is proven guilty, or whether he has been framed by black pots. Maybe just because I wouldn't like to see a donkey's ass looking at me in the mirror, when and if in the end it would show he was innocent...

 

If he's guilty.... and I don't know Khun Phipat who has been arrested and charged. He hasn't been found guilty yet. Maybe he's not guilty? Does anyone have any information on what actually happened?

 

"The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'!"

 

There is only one color now and it's green, or so it would seem.

 

 

Hmmm. . . and isn't green a synonym for immature, naive or gullible?

 

 

It is seldom enough to be highlighted! The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'! When that's not 'reconciliation', you tell me! I don't know Mr Phipat, I hate corruption, but this makes me angry. Anyone actually knowing Mr Phipat here, having a clue of what happend? No need, it was in the papers so it's true, let's have a lynching party, hang him high, now! Well, I'd rather wait, to see whether the man is proven guilty, or whether he has been framed by black pots. Maybe just because I wouldn't like to see a donkey's ass looking at me in the mirror, when and if in the end it would show he was innocent...

 

If he's guilty.... and I don't know Khun Phipat who has been arrested and charged. He hasn't been found guilty yet. Maybe he's not guilty? Does anyone have any information on what actually happened?

 

"The TV members here have unanimously declared Mr Phipat guilty, all, from all parts of the 'colour spectrum'!"

 

There is only one color now and it's green, or so it would seem.

 

 

Hmmm. . . and isn't green a synonym for immature, naive or gullible?

 

Depends where one's mind is at, after all BIB, what does brown connotate?

As for trial by TVF members, guilty until proven guilty.

 

So they are freed now from paying 200 Baht a day, while at the same time lose the right to sell there goods at an illegal location, also known as the pavement.

 

 

I have difficulties to figure out if they are winners or losers.

 

How about starting with the police.A tourist police captain told me she had to pay 100,000 Baht to get her position despite passing out of university with top marks,no bribe,no job.

 

I'm sure that practice has been stamped out by now. Just like the practice of paying cash to avoid conscription to the armed forces (National Service).