By Thai Newsroom Reporters POLITICIANS accused of involvement in 2024’s senatorial rigging conspiracy and fraud plots over last year’s exams for personnel at local government units and those for chief district officers were finally found to be the ones mutually connected and attached to the same party, according to a prominent opposition lawmaker. House
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Govt exam fraud conspiracy far from over yet: Pukkamon
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ALLEGED FRAUD conspiracy over last year’s government exams has not yet been resolved as long as politicians suspected to have stood behind the despicable conspiracy remain in mystery and far from being brought to justice, a prominent opposition lawmaker said today (Sept.1). House Committee on Political Development, Mass Media
Read moreNewin’s right-hand man found among suspected exam fraud conspirators
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A RIGHT-HAND MAN for de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob has been suspected, among others, of involvement in a preplanned fraud over last year’s exam papers for applicants to get hired as personnel at local government units, a partisan source said today (Aug.24). Thongchua Chartkitcharoen, the personally-entrusted, close aide to
Read moreGovt exam fraud dated back to time of Anutin’s father at Interior Ministry
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A PREPLANNED fraud on exam papers for applicants to be hired as chief district officers under command of the Ministry of Interior may have dated back to the time of former interior minister Chavarat Charnvirakul, father of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, nearly two decades earlier, the People’s MP Pukkamon Nunarnan
Read moreProbe into local government exam fraud closed: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug.5) called it closed an in-depth investigation into kickback-generated cheating over exam papers for last year’s recruitment of local government personnel, saying those evidently involved will certainly be punished by law. The prime minister confirmed the official probe conducted by the so-called central committee of
Read moreNearly 4,000 local officials found to have cheated in exams
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEARLY 4,000 officials currently hired at local administrative units nationwide were finally found to have cheated on last year’s personnel recruitment exams whilst certain, yet-unnamed government officials and politicians suspected to have illicitly gained enormous amounts of payoff cash are currently remaining at large. According to the latest results of
Read moreOver 3,600 local officials’ employment deals scrapped over exam scam
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MORE THAN 3,600 officials at local government administrations have had their employment deals immediately rescinded in the face of allegations that they had been evidently involved in an organised fraud over recruitment exams on which they may have cheated, Interior Undersecretary Arsit Sampantharat confirmed today (July 16). Among a total
Read moreInterior undersecretary to fire officials involved in exam cheating: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters INTERIOR Undersecretary Arsit Sampantharat is taking steps to fire any local government officials who may be found to have been earlier evidently involved in a recruitment exam-rigging scam, legally force them to pay back all their salary and entitlement allowances and bring them to justice in court, Prime Minister Anutin
Read morePhuket provincial secretary temporarily suspended in exam bribery scandal
PHUKET’S provincial secretary Mr. Rungruang Thimabut has been temporarily suspended from duty after being arrested then bailed out in a local exam bribery scandal that is entangling other officials across the country, Naewna newspaper said. Mr. Witthoon Sirinukul, deputy director-general and acting director-general of the Department of Provincial Administration, signed the order temporarily suspending
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