PUBLISHED: 17 Jun 2024 at 20: 32
Eleven staff members who had been seized by the government and were missing from oil-smuggling vessels turned themselves in to the police on Monday.
This comes as arrest warrants for another 15 staff people were issued following the earlier removal of three of the five seized suspected oil-smuggling boats from a coastal police element.
The canoes, which disappeared from the sea police wharf in Chon Buri’s Sattahip area, have now been discovered.
The 11 crew members, along with their lawyers, showed up at the Economic Crime Suppression Division’s (ECD ) office for interrogation. 28 staff members made up the three missing boats, totaling 28.
According to Pol Col Chatchawal Chuchaicharoen, the investigation was intended to determine how many staff members left the nation and how many left successfully.
In three arteries, 15 of the team members escaped with, and 13 of the remaining 13 staff people remained in Thailand.
But, two of the 13 personnel, including a Thai and a stranger, were missing and their underwriters were searching for them.
The 15 staff people who escaped the land on the three vessels may lose their bail, according to Pol Col Chatchawal, and will be detained for their escape while they are on bail.
He claimed that while the ECD may accuse them of stealing the ships, their sureties are in charge of prosecuting them.
Officials are looking into the identity of the person responsible for the theft, according to Pol Col Chatchawal.
The 28 team members were originally detained on March 19 for a tax offense, but they later received a two-million baht loan that made it possible for them to flee.
At the time they vanished from the wharf in Satthip, the three vessels that went missing had 330 000 gallons of illegal gasoline.
On Sunday, aquatic police spotted and surrounded them close to Malaysian waters. A significant number of the oil that was stored in the arteries was discovered to be missing.
On Monday, it was reported that the three ships had arrived at the Port of Songkhla.