waerth Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/tdri-says-corruption-rice-scheme-exceeds-450-billion-baht/ Corruption plagues the government’s rice pledging scheme in almost every step with damages during the past two years since the implementation of the scheme now exceeds over 450 billion baht. The huge corruption figure was exposed by an academic of Thailand Development Research Institute at a seminar to reform the country’s prevention and suppression of corruption for sustainable success. The TDRI academic Mr Niphon Puapongsakorn said the rice pledging scheme engaged corruption in every step of the scheme. It brought about damage which no one would lodge complaint because it engaged conflict of interest. Throughout the past two years when the scheme was implemented, he said it inflicted damages of over 380 billion baht, excluding 45-75 billion baht damage from the rice sale, adding total damage from corruption amounted to over 450 billion baht, or equivalent to 60% of total sum used for the rice-pledging scheme. He said corruption still prevails through clandestine rice sale although the National Anti-Corruption Committee is undertaking investigation of several corruption cases involving the rice scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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