Artificial exam results were used to get free drugs that were later sold for money, according to authorities.
PUBLISHED: 6 Mar 2025 at 17: 26
Difficulty people who reside in Lop Buri are being interrogated by officers about their admitted role in a bribery scandal at the Veterans General Hospital (VGH) in Bangkok.
According to Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat Pankaew, deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau ( CIB ), the abuse of free medication and medical supplies for veterans and their welfare program is thought to be occurring since 2017.
On Thursday, Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat led the doubting at Lop Buri, where his group was joined by hospital managers from the PACC, the National Anti-Corruption Commission, and the War Veterans Organization of Thailand.
He claimed that around 30 patients were treated in the morning and that 20 or 30 additional questions may be answered in two to three days.
Most of the people interrogated on Thursday were soldiers or their immediate families, who were disproportionately impoverished and misinformed, according to Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat.
Some people claimed they were instructed to drink more fatty foods to maintain high blood cholesterol, while others, he said, were advised to consume a lot of sweetened beverages before having their blood sugar levels checked.
In order for the medication to be resold for profit, the people were encouraged to buy more than they needed.
According to him, for behaviors may constitute human trafficking violations because they were instructed to use fabricated test results to justify unnecessary treatments, adding that this could even put their health at risk.
More individuals from VGH are suspected of being involved in the fraud investigation.
He said that the scope of the investigation will include people at other state- and military-run facilities suspected of being connected to the network.  ,
More than 100 civil workers and state officials, according to the NACC, may be involved in at least 1, 000 cases.
One of the six teams in the government ‘ sights was now only one of the six groups, according to a woman identified as Phatchari, who was among those gathering information about the VGH incident to the House committee on martial matters.
Before beginning to investigate the misconduct, Ms. Phatchari claimed to have received a tip-off from the organization’s head, adding that it took her six months to gather enough information, including videos, to provide to the council.