Duty-free heist puts Phuket airport employee behind bars
Phuket Gazette


Sitthichai Srirat, 28, confessed to police that he stole the valuable duty-free items. Photo: Winai Sarot

PHUKET: -- A Phuket Air Catering employee confessed to stealing duty-free items while transporting food to a plane bound for Finland at Phuket International Airport yesterday afternoon.

“Sitthichai Srirat, 28, stole a total of 18 duty-free items, including expensive watches, perfumes, a pen and a necklace,” explained Tah Chat Chai Police Superintendent Somchai Sanprasert.

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-- Phuket Gazette 2015-12-01

Phuket Airport staffer arrested for stealing B100k of luxury lifestyle duty-free goods
Eakkapop Thongtub


Sithichai Srirat (wearing yellow safety vest), 28, was arrested after the B100,000 of luxury goods were found to be missing from an aircraft bound for Helsinki. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: -- A staffer at Phuket International Airport has been arrested for stealing duty-free items with an estimated value of about B100,000 that were to be loaded onto an aircraft and sold mid-flight en route to Helsinki.

Sithichai Srirat, 28, from Phang Nga province, was taken into custody at the airport yesterday (Nov 30) after Tha Chatchai Police were called in to investigate the disappearance of the missing haul of duty-free items.

According to the police report, airport security officer Somnuek Satthabot received a tip-off that some goods had disappeared from the stock of items to be sold on the Helsinki-bound aircraft.

Security officers managed to track down that the items disappeared somewhere between being allocated to be loaded onto the aircraft and the aircraft itself – which only left the “delivery area”.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-airport-staffer-arrested-for-stealing-b100k-of-luxury-lifestyle-duty-free-goods-55211.php


-- Phuket News 2015-12-01

Nice they caught the thief or else the crew responsible for in flight duty free sales would be in trouble and too many paper works to clear hi/her name out.