The Nation
October 7, 2011
The Army has prosecuted three captains of Burapa Task Force for involvement in smuggling of paddy rice across Thai-Cambodian border, its spokesman Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Friday.
The revelation came one day after Rak Prathet Thai MP Chuwit Kamolvisit (pictured) took the House floor to show four video clips depicting the smuggling of paddy, gas cylinders and workers from Cambodia to take advantage of the Thai government’s subsidies.
However Sansern insisted that the prosecution took place long before Chuwit’s showing of video clips in the House.
Chuwit claimed the paddy smuggling took place in three border districts: Aranyaprathet, Ta Phraya and Khok Sung. Burapa Task Force is assigned to oversee Thai-Cambodia border.
The spokesman told reporters that the case is now in the court and the three colonels had been investigated. Disciplinary measures being taken against them included salary reductions and secondment out of the area.
In Chuwit's first clip, smugglers were seen using pulleys to lift paddy packaged in fertiliser bags across a small waterway to the Thai side. A group of workers then proceeded to repackage the paddy in gunnysacks.
In the second clip, smugglers carried paddy bags from a 20-wheel trailer parked in a remote area to the Thai side. Chuwit said he detected some 20 to 30 spots for paddy smuggling. The paddy price in Cambodia is around Bt7,000 per ton.
In the third clip, smugglers were seen dumping empty cooking gas cylinders into the waterway to have them floated to the Thai side. Chuwit explained the empty cylinders would be refilled at the subsidised price before being smuggled back into Cambodia.
In the fourth clip, a pick-up truck was seen transporting a number of Cambodian workers through a checkpoint with the banner "Ranger Volunteers 1302". Chuwit said the incident happened on the Sri Phen Road.
He alleged that smugglers used illicit drugs to bribe checkpoint officials. The drugs were concealed in a baby-powder boxes, he said.
1 comment:
Thailande is not a reliable commercial partner.
Thai government signed a contract for the sale of several thousands tonnes of thai rice to the Indonesia several months at a price agreed between the two countries. The Thailand has cancelled without any discomfort three weeks ago the contract . Because the Thai Government has to realize that the price per tonne of rice sold to the Indonesia is less than the price per tonne they have promised to buy to thai farmers.
Ask Indonesians to these new.But the contract once signed freely and with the agreement of both parties, must be honoured!
Today the peasants and merchants thais want to buy cheaper rice of the countries of the region to resell more expensive to the Thai Government to achieve profits. Now ,Thai politicians excited against their own stupidity.
Thai politicians are immature people or what?
Thais are really people "kro leich kro loicht men ten ". Shit!
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