Thai engineer is fired after he was caught demanding bribe

[NongKhaiKid]

NongKhaiKid. Do you not believe in pure discussion on only what you believe in.

Do you ?

[phoenixdoglover]

NongKhaiKid. Do you not believe in pure discussion on only what you believe in.

Do not feed.

[taffey17]

Phoenixdoglover. Point taken.

[jaywalker]

Thai engineer.

A bit of an oxymoron.

Corrupt Thai engineer, now that I can believe, as he would have bought his degree.

[HerbalEd]

You gotta know that someone above this engineer was going to get some of this bribe money. Thus, the reason he was "temporarily" relieved.

[inzman]

Since the money always goes up, I would assume the investigation will go nowhere and he will be back bribing in the near future. Apparently the investigators will now want a piece of the action too. TIT,

[WitawatWatawit]

Witawatawit. Not condoning any corruption, just stating more effort should be put into protecting the general public.

If it wasn't a company that complained then they probably would of not bothered following it up. As a paragon of

virtue you should know insulting other posters is very childish.

There was no insult, just an observation on your comment, which, I repeat, is warped. Sorry you can't see that. You seem to imply that there is a degree of acceptability in a company being the victim of corruption compared to Joe Citizen. I agree the public needs more protection - I am a long-standing taxpayer, so I think I fall within your ambit of "the public" - but corruption in this country is insidious, and where it touches one, it touches all. It is so pervasive that each victory against it, no matter how small, gives us all a reason to have a little cheer, hollow though that sounds.

And thanks for calling me a paragon of virtue. Me sainted mum would be proud.

[lvr181]

Although this is a disgrace to the alleged engineer, it was from a company that could afford it. The more concern are people

in similar positions who demand bribes from the lower paid citizens of this country. This in my opinion is a far greater crime.

Your conclusion is the height of naivety at best. Any cost of corrupt payment is paid by someone. It is not about who can or cannot afford it. In this case the other buyers of this company's products by way of higher purchase prices, be they the Government, other companies or the end user citizen (rich or poor).

As for this engineer he should be immediately dismissed from service as yet another example of corruption. And the PM should make sure that this happens or dismiss those who may decide to let the engineer off. Corruption should NOT be tolerated or excused.

[taffey17]

My point was not to condone what the Engineer had done, but what the persons in authority had trapped the Engineer on the say of the

accusation of the supply company, when thousands of bribes are cohersed from Joe public everyday under the knowledge of these

same authorities. By all means punish all bribe takers but lets start where it really hurts the low wage earner.

[Happy Grumpy]

Quite simply, one of either two things has to happen:

1) Corruption has to be eradicated completely.

2) We need to profit from it more.

[Basil B]

So suspended then, not fired..

To be fair, in many countries due to employment law one would not sack any employee until such incidents had been properly investigated and reasonable consideration of the facts, that is why many employees are suspended pending a decision as to there future employment.

Though in this case if the facts are true this guy should be prosecuted with a view to him doing jail time.

[spidermike007]

Whether or not this government is serious about fighting corruption will be borne out with the severity of the punishment, the jail sentence, and whether or not he is given a massive fine, equal to many times the total he has collected over his career. If it is anything less, they are all words and no action. Show me, don't tell me please.

[bangon04]

"Justice permanent secretary Mrs Suwanna Suwanchutha described the incident as brazen as it took place in government office."

yes the most important mistake he made was getting caught. "Brazen" is a good word.