Pirate Fuel Station Raided and Illegal Fuel Trader Caught Red Handed

[Rimmer]

Pirate Fuel Station Caught Red Handed In Pattaya

A man who had illegally traded pirated fuel in Pattaya was arrested by police and soldiers. He confessed to police that he would only steal diesel which he sold for 22 baht a litre.

PATTAYA– October 24, 2014 [Pattaya Daily News]; at 00.30 am Maj.Col.Nopporn Singhasut and 20 soldiers inspected a pirate fuel station after they were notified that they were smuggling fuel from fuel trucks.

Upon inspecting the scene it was labour accommodation and there were a lot of fuel tanks, equipment, receipts, some documents about trading fuel and 100,000 baht. Also the officials caught Mr.Suriyasak Pakpai aged 38 and his 2 men.

Full story:http://www.pattayadailynews.com/pattaya-news/pirate-fuel-station-caught-red-handed-pattaya/

-- Pattaya Daily News 2014-10-25

[daveAustin]

'He confessed to police that he would only steal diesel'

Oh, that's alright then; like it'd be a crime to nick benzene.

[Basil B]

Well done to the BiB BiG (Boys in Green)

A hard to read story but seems the guys were buying fuel from truck drivers who were short delivering fuel to filling stations

I think 30-50 Ltrs to be a very conservative estimate...

!00,000B lying around, almost certain that's just small proportion of the profits and that's after paying off the drivers (probably 10B a Ltr), certainly a multi-million Baht scam.

Edited October 25, 2014 by Basil B

[ezzra]

Pirate? was the attended wearing a black eye patch with a parrot on his shoulder

using a hook to fill up your car?

[julemanden]

Why didn't i know that guy...

[jaywalker]

Pirate? was the attended wearing a black eye patch with a parrot on his shoulder

using a hook to fill up your car?

This guy could be a Thai pirate! Replete with economy parrot on his shoulder.

[inzman]

Got busted because he didn't share the loot. Or maybe it was due to the excellent investigative work of the ###.

[RigPig]

Pirate? was the attended wearing a black eye patch with a parrot on his shoulder

using a hook to fill up your car?

Smuggling? Pirating? How about stealing? It wasn't coming in from Malaysia, or anywhere else for that matter, they were stealing it and selling it and the people receiving it were receiving stolen goods !!!

[Briggsy]

Is the Colonel leading the raid on something? Petrol fumes perhaps? The photo would suggest so.

[petercool]

A post "re-writing" the news story was removed

[Benmart]

Good job!

[soalbundy]

Happens in my village once a month. Two large tanker lorries pull up at night time and the villagers swarm around with large 10 gallon plastic tanks and get their refills, they pay the driver and after half an hour they are gone. I don't know how the drivers get away with it,do they put the loss down to evaporation,leakage or whatever, must be a nice earner.

Edited October 26, 2014 by soalbundy