If you want to do business in Thailand, according to the study, you need to ask the Boys in Brown
From the Bangkok Post today, under the headline,
COPS TOP GRAFT LIST, STUDY FINDS
Of State Agencies, Police voted ‘on the take’ most
The police force has topped the list of the most corrupt state agencies, according to a study funded by the National Anti-Corruption Commission….
The study showed about 40% of businessmen who had experience doing business with government agencies said the police force, including highways and traffic police officers, was the most corrupt state agency.
The top five state agencies and officers that businessmen had to pay “extra money” to during the past five months of this year were the Land Department (72.22%), followed by tambon administration organisations (68.52%), provincial administration organisations (60.52%), highways and traffic police (59.08%), and local politicians and influential figures (44.76%)….
About 17% of respondents said they had come into contact with corrupt politicians.
According to the study, 19% of corrupt practices in the state sector involved officials thinking up unnecessary projects, 14% involved abusing inside information for personal benefits, particularly to buy land, and about 9% was related to bid collusion.
The respondents viewed that corruption in state agencies stemmed from the culture and mindset of giving and receiving kickbacks and working environments in government agencies which are conducive to graft.
June 6, 2009 at 12:58 pm |
The only surprise is that there’s actually a list. Where does the Natonal Anti-Corruption Commission rank?
June 6, 2009 at 3:41 pm |
@Swampthing: Functionally speaking? Just about the same as similar investigative bodies in any other jurisdiction I’ve ever encountered. Substantially? and in view of the historical repercussions of any real findings? WAY behind any comparable body in ANY jurisdiction in the West.
“Locally” it’s pretty well acknowledged that there IS an unseen hand. To suggest this in the West or for that matter to promote any kind of examination of secret government is to invite ridicule and contempt.
Travel really broadens the mind, doesn’t it ;-?
June 8, 2009 at 10:27 am |
Pru: Give it a rest…. you are talking to a doorknob…
June 8, 2009 at 11:49 am |
John Brown? What on earth are you on about?
And who are you to assume that there is no one appreciative of the fact that somebody out here actually has a clue concerning the political, economic, military, and sociological ass-raping currently going on in what was once a GREAT country.
I guess your “contribution” up there was just an excuse to try to issue an order to somebody.
On a blog no less.
One of your posts you claimed to live in Phuket, in another you claim to be an alcoholic who jumps on broken ashtrays he smashes in non-smoking environments, in yet another post you claim to be “consulting” hither and yon around the globe. In still another you mis-apply neologisms and phrasal verbs like an advanced ESL student might.
Have you even ever BEEN here or are you just practicing your English on a decreasingly patient audience?
My guess is that you’re likely in Riga trapped in some bullshit job with no future where no one listens to you.
Trapped. Simian.
That would explain your incessant masturbation to internet porn and your admitted willingness to guzzle anything with alcohol in it and then to post drunk.
Wipe up the floor under your monitor before you have another accident.
June 8, 2009 at 3:15 pm |
John Brown – Rounding up a posse is a juvenile tactic best left in the playground. You need to learn to fight your own battles. You’ve looked foolish enough in the past week. I suggest you bin it.
June 23, 2009 at 6:32 pm |
Are these real comments from real people or is it spam? Seriously. If people are going to write this sort of drivel in the comments section why do you bother? Did anyone read the post itself? You know, the post at the TOP OF THE PAGE. These are rhetorical questions of course – I’m not going to be reading the replies.