By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE AUTHORITIES were today (Nov.10) advised to inspect money transactions involving several oil trading firms amidst suspicions that the cash may have been ill-gotten and laundered by criminals ranging from networked scammers, gambling operators to drug dealers.
Klatham MP Dachai Ekpatapee, who currently chairs a subcommittee of the House Committee on Anti-Money Laundering & Anti-Narcotic Affairs, suggested the Anti-Money Laundering Office, Department of Special Investigation and National Anti-Corruption Commission, among others, thoroughly examine the money transactions to and from eight oil trading firms which have reportedly only dealt in cash and without banks in between for fear that any illicit profits from scam rackets, online casinos and drugs could probably be laundered by way of legal, transnational businesses.
The Customs Department, Excise Department and Energy Business Department would usually see their oil shipping invoices but literally fail to look into the business transactions which could probably be made in laundered cash, Dacha pointed out.
In particular, the MP of Lampang recommended the authorities see to it that the transactions be clearly made examinable through banks and no more cash be used for the oil trading business whilst the AMLO was suggested to foreclose assets of any oil firms suspected of involvement in money-laundering scams pending investigation into such transnational crimes.
He apparently made his comment in parallel to the current event in which villagers mostly from southern provinces were peacefully gathering outside Government House calling for an oil price cut by 10 baht per litre to help cope with their increasing costs of living.
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Top and Front Page: An oil drum being hauled up. Photo by Sri Widayanto on Unsplash
Insert: Klatham MP Dachai Ekpatapee addressing the press. Photo – PPTVHD36
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