Move comes after the transfers of five top officers at Tak, one of whom is exceedingly wealthy.
Discussed: 12 Feb 2025 at 21: 13
To investigate alleged links between senior officers and criminal activity in Myanmar, the Royal Thai Police (RTP ) established a committee.
Five senior officials in the frontier state of Tak were moved out of their articles pending further investigations, and one of them was long known to be exceedingly wealthy.
In his power as the panel’s captain, Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat Pankaew, deputy director of the Central Investigation Bureau, said the investigative board will assure reliability and justice for all parties.
Pol Maj Gen Ekkarat Intasueb, the acting captain of Inspection Division 6 of the Office of the Inspector General, is the main subject of the investigation.
His responsibilities include seven regions, including Tak, which is located across the border from Myawaddy and where the main scam centers are located. Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch, the federal police commander, ordered on Wednesday that he be partially transferred to Bangkok.
According to local media reports, Pol Maj Gen Ekkarat is the owner of a castle on five acres of land with a fountain and a golf driving variety. He frequently entertains visitors it, but he personally prefers to reside in the police suite that the Mae Sot chief has been given.
” I firmly believe that all parties will receive justice,” Pol Maj Gen Charoonkiat said.” The investigation will largely be based on evidence.”
Pol Maj Gen Samrit Emkamol, the head of the Tak Provincial Police, was likewise transferred to Bangkok. Prior to this, had previously ordered the transport of the Mae Sot, Mae Ramat, and Phob Phra city police station supervisors to the Tak municipal police department.
The three payments were connected to an investigation into the possible role that police may include played in the removal of Taiwanese tourists who were duped into entering Myanmar via the three regions for work.
Phumtham Wechayachai, the minister of defense, said the payments of the five officers do not always indicate that they were all involved.
” An research is urgently needed to discover why there has been like a high occurrence of international violence occurring in their districts,” he said.
The state is redoubled in its efforts to combat the con syndicates operating out of Myanmar as a result of the exchanges. After the recovery of a Chinese artist who had been trafficked to Myawaddy attracted foreign attention, it was forced into actions.
Five border regions suspected of hosting the murder syndicates have been left without power and access to internet service thanks to the authorities.
As power and internet reduces officially began to impede the operation of the hoax centers, 261 immigrants were sent back to Thailand from Myawaddy on Wednesday.