Panadda threatens legal actions against uncooperative rice millers



BANGKOK: -- Legal actions will be taken against rice millers who have dragged their feet or refused to cooperate with the authorities in checking the quality and quantity of rice in storage which were bought under the rice pledging scheme, said Prime Minister’s Office Minister Panadda Diskul today.

Explaining why the rice storage checks are delayed and unlikely to be completed by October 15, he said that some rice millers have not been cooperative with the authorities in which case he said that legal actions would be taken against them.

Agencies concerned, he said, will have to follow the procedure in dealing with this problem.

The minister who was put in charge of checking rice stockpiles under the controversial scheme to determine their quality and quantity said that he had wanted to finish the job within October 15 so that a report would be filed with the cabinet but, at the same time, he didn’t want to rush the work which could result to incomplete or inaccurate information.

Nevertheless, he said that his teams had been coordinating closely with the Commerce Ministry.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/panadda-threatens-legal-actions-incooperative-rice-millers/


-- Thai PBS 2014-10-09

Of coarse they are dragging their feet. They are still trying to find the their thousands of missing sacks

Isn't he the one got caught with purchasing the 146K baht microphones (each).

And bought them in the hundreds.

60 inch Pasma TV that cost half a million.

Or something like that.

Why not just go to the mills with a few hundred poloce and military and walk in ... like a police raid?

Referring to LuckyLew above, there does seem a reluctance to upset these uncooperative rice millers.

Is it that they are just "Persons of influence" that may cause problems if they were fronted by the police or the army?

Or is it some peculiar etiquette that prevents direct action?

Possibly the Thai law has some quirk that prevents an army under martial law forcing the issue?

Whatever it is its a pretty weak response to the direct civil disobedience that would normally see others imprisoned and reprogrammed!

When I read things like this I wonder how much of the rice pledging scandal is actually down to these people? Did they just totally extract the urine out of the scheme?

Bit of luck the uncooperative ones will get the same treatment as this fella :

BANGKOK: -- The Chaiyaphum Provincial Court has sentenced a rice miller to serve 20 years in prison and nine farmers six months after finding them in rice pledging fraud conspiracy involving the missing of 750 tonnes of paddy and rice from government stocks.

They all really need to have that story sent to them as a warning.

Of coarse they are dragging their feet. They are still trying to find the their thousands of missing sacks

Of course the sacks of rice are quite coarse. That is the nature of the material of which they are made.

It is the concerned agencies and those they are dealing with, ''following procedure'' that has cost bilions of baht, missing inventory, poor qualityrice, etc.

Anyone with any knowledge of grain purchasing, grading,drying, storing, fumigating, packaging, transport,etc can/would observe the reasons for lack of cooperation from millers. They do not have access to the grain they are to be holding for the program, they may not even have the funds to p-ay for the losses incurred, and they may even be still be collecting payment for the storage and treatmeat at their facilities of grain that no one who gives a darn, can locate.

But true to tradition, there is a ready excuse (this one first surfaed +6 months ago) and point the fickle finger at other mininteries involved. Of course no specific names are mentioned so the search for any single company or individual is somewhat hindered. The lone hint of circumstantial evidence seems to be someone named 'Dang' and another one 'noi' so the manhunt will be organized by committee made up of millers.

Legal actions will be taken against rice millers who have dragged their feet or refused to cooperate with the authorities in checking in stitching up the previous government regarding the quality and quantity of rice in storage which were bought under the rice pledging scheme, said Prime Minister’s Office Minister Panadda Diskul (who by the way is being reported in the Thai media as having very unusual homosexual fetishes [not that I am saying there is anything wrong with that]).

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Legal actions will be taken against rice millers who have dragged their feet or refused to cooperate with the authorities in checking in stitching up the previous government regarding the quality and quantity of rice in storage which were bought under the rice pledging scheme, said Prime Minister’s Office Minister Panadda Diskul (who by the way is being reported in the Thai media as having very unusual homosexual fetishes [not that I am saying there is anything wrong with that]).

Hear we go again the usual for red posts, when you have no answer attempt to vilify, the hate must continue.

Isn't he the one got caught with purchasing the 146K baht microphones (each).

And bought them in the hundreds.

60 inch Pasma TV that cost half a million.

Or something like that.

Or something like that. Exactly, yes he was and he's very sorry and didn't mean to cause a stir and has given reassurances it won't happen again blah blah blah. Next, the rice problem.

Bit of luck the uncooperative ones will get the same treatment as this fella :

BANGKOK: -- The Chaiyaphum Provincial Court has sentenced a rice miller to serve 20 years in prison and nine farmers six months after finding them in rice pledging fraud conspiracy involving the missing of 750 tonnes of paddy and rice from government stocks.

They all really need to have that story sent to them as a warning.

I think explains their reluctance to 'co-operate'.

Isn't he the one got caught with purchasing the 146K baht microphones (each).

And bought them in the hundreds.

60 inch Pasma TV that cost half a million.

Or something like that.

Or something like that. Exactly, yes he was and he's very sorry and didn't mean to cause a stir and has given reassurances it won't happen again blah blah blah. Next, the rice problem.

He should have been sacked the very least, preferably a corruption case against him.

Legal actions will be taken against rice millers who have dragged their feet or refused to cooperate with the authorities in checking in stitching up the previous government regarding the quality and quantity of rice in storage which were bought under the rice pledging scheme, said Prime Minister’s Office Minister Panadda Diskul (who by the way is being reported in the Thai media as having very unusual homosexual fetishes [not that I am saying there is anything wrong with that]).

Are you suggesting that the rice millers are connected to the previous government in some way??