Two southern district chiefs removed following kickbacks demand surface

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Two southern district chiefs removed following kickbacks demand surface

 

 

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: -- The Department of Provincial Administration today ordered abrupt transfer of two district chief officers in Nakhon Si Thammarat province to inactive positions after a video clip showing an upset village headman bowing down with his head on the floor inquiring them about alleged demanding kickbacks from getting a Pracharat state project.

 

The video clip was posted on the Internet and went viral on the social media with viewers criticising the demand of kickbacks from village headman to be awarded a state fund project to his village.

 

The immediate transfer of Sichon district chief officer Vajira Pandusa, and Cha-aut district chief officer Pitak Boripat, former district chief officer of Si Chon district was ordered by the department’ director-general Pol Lt Arthit Bunyasopat.

 

The village headman Samphran Kondee told Thai PBS that he was upset when villagers told him about kickbacks to get a 5-million baht Pracharat funding project for their Tambon while he was drinking tea at a shop.

 

This prompted him to inquire truth from the district chief officer at the meeting of village headman recently.

 

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said today he was informed of the clip by the interior minister at yesterday’s cabinet meeting.

He has ordered an investigation with instruction that if there is ground, relevant officials will be dealt with decidedly by law.

 

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/two-southern-district-chiefs-removed-following-kickbacks-demand-surface/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-08-10

[lvr181]

Kickbacks? Corruption? Never...........

[dageurreotype]

Drop in the ocean from that lawless province which exports all it's criminal scum across the country. 

[seajae]

will be great when they start to actually charge and lock up all the govt workers/policemen  that take kickbacks and are corrupt but then that would remove way too many of them for the country to be able to handle. Everyone knows the amount of corruption in the govt in Thailand but they refuse to do anything about it or arrest and charge those involved in it, have to wonder how many thousand inactive posts there are here in Thailand, it would have to be the biggest department in the govt and cost millions to keep running, lock the bastards up

[smutcakes]

This corruption goes on daily throughout Thailand, the only time anything remotely positive is done is when there is video evidence like this which makes not doing anything tricky. I doubt anything will come to much with this.

 

The irony in the  whole thing is that the bed rock of the PDRC anti corruption protests were the civil servants and Government bodies, whom strangely enough are where the corruption in society is at its parasitic worst!

[cockatoowho]

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered an investigation with instruction that if there is ground, relevant officials will be dealt with decidedly by law.

Case closed, move on, next please. Next bulletin will read, village headman Samphran Kondee sacked and sued for making false allegations etc. etc. etc.