From what I hear 95% of all immigration agents are for sale and nearly every service is available through them, for a fee. Apparently the same applies to customs and as we know the same applies of the police and likely the judiciary. So where do you start to earnestly fight corruption in Thailand and how do we know that this is a sincere fight? It could be another scam being perpetrated by Anutin to try to convince the people that he's on their side. Curious that this major crackdown would be on foreigners only. The authorities should probe their own recruitment methods and why money is required to purchase a promotion and merit is never a consideration. They should probe customs, immigration, all tambon, state and federal recruitment. It is all the same. Filthy from top to bottom. No promotions without payment. Corruption, at all levels. A completely broken system. This is just more total and complete nonsense from Anutin, who does not have a sincere bone in his body, and his rarely ever in his career has done anything to benefit the people of Thailand other than the ganja initiative. Every single department in Thailand is corrupt from the local, to the state government, to the federal government. You cannot get a position within the government at any level, the police, customs or immigration without buying that position. Everybody knows that and fortunes are being made on a daily basis. My wife's sister-in-law just paid 200,000 baht for a lowly 10,000 baht a month position in their local village. It's so common. Of course this is just a silly dream, everybody's making so much money with this bizarre patronage system, when hundreds of thousands of baht are being paid for a low position and millions are being paid for a high position. The fortunes that are being made and the illegal and illicit funds that are being collected are astonishing and shameful.
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