Three seized vessels that left the officers wharf in Sattahip are thought to be still in Thai lakes.
PUBLISHED: 13 Jun 2024 at 18: 01
In connection with the removal of three ships carrying 330, 000 litres of smuggled fuel and 18 crew members from a sea police wharf in Chon Buri, five police officers have been moved to inert positions.
The arteries are still being looked for, according to reports that they are connected to a significant oil criminal in southern Thailand. Police say they are heading for Vietnamese waters, but they may not have already made it that far.
A fact-finding committee has been established by the Central Investigation Bureau ( CIB ) to find out how three of the five vessels that were seizeable in an oil smuggling case disappeared early on Wednesday from the pier in the Sattahip district.
The payments of the officials are intended to maintain an honest and thorough research, according to older officers.
The analysis was divided into three groups, according to Pol Maj Gen Jaroonkiat Pankaew, the CIB deputy director who traveled to Sattahip to lead it. The missing ships and their crews were identified, and a control center was established to find the vessel owners to find the cause of the departure.
The three lost boats are probably still in the Gulf of Thailand, he said on Thursday, adding that they have not yet reached neighboring nations. ” That’s because they have fuel crew, allowing them to travel at a rate of just 7 to 8 knots. It may take about 15 hours to travel the 240 nautical mile radius to the neighboring nation.
The CIB director, Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop Bhuridej, signed an order on Thursday to assign the five aquatic authorities officials to inert positions at the CIB activities center.
The soldiers are Pol Col Intarat Panya, Marine Police Division 5, Pol Lt Col Ajin Wangwatthana, Division 5, Pol Lt Col Kobchai To-on, a Division 3 investigator, Pol Sgt Maj Thammarat Lekmontra, Division 5, Sub-Division 3, Division 5, and Pol Cpl Apichart Channu, Division 3 club leader, Marine Police Sub-Division 3, Division 5, and Pol Lt Col Ajin