Police seize illegal furniture at Red Cross Fair

BANGKOK: -- A large amount of illegal teak wood furniture was confiscated and three people arrested for selling the items at the Red Cross fair in Bangkok on Sunday.

Police raided the Red Cross fair at the Suan Amporn Garden yesterday after a tip-off about the illegal sales of illegal teak wood furniture in a Red Cross booth.

Earlier before the arrest, a police officer had disguised himself as a shopper to purchase teak wood products from the shop.

All the furniture products are illegal when they were produced from prohibited wood and no licence could be produced as evident nice.

Three employees at the booth were arrested and all furniture made of teak wood including tables, chairs, shelves, and sofa sets were seized.

The suspects were charged for violating the Forest Act B.E. 2484.

Meanwhile, three other people were also arrested for extorting parking fee from Red Cross visitors and seized 1,600 baht cash and fake parking tickets from them.

The suspects confessed that they asked the Red Cross visitors who parked their vehicle near the festival to pay them parking fee by threatening them that their car could be damaged if they didn’t pay.

Visitors were charged 60-120 baht for car and 20-40 baht for motorbike, the said.

The suspects said they worked for a man called “Te” and were paid 500 baht to do the job.

All the money they earned from the extortion would be given to him, they said.

Police are hunting for ‘Te” and other members of his extortion gang.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/police-seize-illegal-furniture-at-bred-cross-fair


-- Thai PBS 2015-04-07

The scamming, extortions, frauds etc. are an all over the place thing. Severe punishments only can tackle this thainess...

Wow, extortion and police raids for illegal furniture. Red Cross fundraisers sure are a lot more lively these days.

Wow, extortion and police raids for illegal furniture. Red Cross fundraisers sure are a lot more lively these days.

AFAIK, the Red Cross is allowed to collect the rental fees from the vendors at those fairs.

It is a travelling circus going all over the country, selling the usual junk.

Would be very surprised if the seized furniture is indeed teak!!

<<The suspects said they worked for a man called “Te” and were paid 500 baht to do the job.

All the money they earned from the extortion would be given to him, they said.

Police are hunting for ‘Te” and other members of his extortion gang.<< Quote

Clearly the police don't like competition......................

<<The suspects said they worked for a man called Te and were paid 500 baht to do the job.

All the money they earned from the extortion would be given to him, they said.

Police are hunting for Te and other members of his extortion gang.<< Quote

Clearly the police don't like competition......................

why make it public that they are hunting for him giving him the heads up. The other guys were suppose to hand the money over to him so just tag along.

Another case of catching the small fish, to take the attention away from the big fish.

Smoke and mirrors.

People actually being officially called to account for such things by the RTPF? I'm very impressed! Is a new RTPF emerging?

Wow, extortion and police raids for illegal furniture. Red Cross fundraisers sure are a lot more lively these days.

AFAIK, the Red Cross is allowed to collect the rental fees from the vendors at those fairs.

It is a travelling circus going all over the country, selling the usual junk.

Would be very surprised if the seized furniture is indeed teak!!

"AFAIK, the Red Cross is allowed to collect the rental fees from the vendors at those fairs."

But those arrested were charging the customers foe "safe" parking, something completely different.

Why would you be surprised if the seized furniture is teak?

There are loads of teak furniture shops along the roads, how can we know if the teak is legal?

<<The suspects said they worked for a man called Te and were paid 500 baht to do the job.

All the money they earned from the extortion would be given to him, they said.

Police are hunting for Te and other members of his extortion gang.<< Quote

Clearly the police don't like competition......................

why make it public that they are hunting for him giving him the heads up. The other guys were suppose to hand the money over to him so just tag along.

Why do the extra effort? The 1600 baht isn’t much. At the next Red Cross travelling fund raiser they should be able to collect again. If not, a stack of fake parking tickets should give them a new business opportunity.

Someone's going to end up with some nice wooden furniture for sale.

If looking for a 'Te' try the nearest golf course. Tee hee.

The authorities are very strict on teak users.

Everyone has to have paperwork on whatever they carry or work on.

Now, it is still Thailand of course.