Debatemne: Thai-Dk Din debat side :: Jail chief transferred as officials raid prison
Oprettet af thai d. 23-04-2012 07:36
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More than 600 officials yesterday made a predawn surprise search at the Nakhon Si Thammarat Central Prison in their bid to stop this correctional facility from being a base for drug-trafficking gangs.
Some inmates have reportedly paid over Bt350,000 to have an iPhone for use while behind bars there.
The prison's chief Narong Yongnarongdejkul was immediately transferred out of his post yesterday. He appeared under stress throughout the search operation, which started at 3am and ended at around 9am. The search uncovered about 300 cell phones, including iPhones and tablets, 1,700 meth-amphetamine tablets, and one kilo of crystal meth-amphetamine or ice plus many TAK tools and weapons.
"I have tried (to enforce the ban on such stuff) but money power has prevailed," Narong was heard telling Nakhon Si Thammarat police chief Maj General Ronnapong Saikaeo.
Provincial Police Region 8 commander Lt General Santi Pensutra disclosed that the surprise search was arranged after most drug suspects confessed they had ordered illicit drugs from inmates at the Nakhon Si Thammarat Central Prison.
"We are going to determine how the cell phones and illicit drugs got into the prison," he said.
According to an informed source, a cell phone costs between Bt200,000 and Bt250,000 for an inmate at the Nakhon Si Thammarat Prison. A smart phone is more expensive, costing between Bt300,000 and Bt350,000. Inmates who do not own cell phones can rent the devices at between Bt10,000 and Bt18,000 each time.
Ronnapong said he could tell that some officials had brought cell phones into the prison for inmates for a delivery fee of Bt30,000.
"We are preparing to seek arrest warrants for them," he said.
Ronnapong said yesterday's search was a result of months'-long preparations. Police, soldiers and administrative officials joined in the search operation yesterday. Ongoing investigations has shown that two inmates at the Nakhon Si Thammarat Central Prison were responsible for the delivery of a huge amount of illicit drugs, each time worth several million baht.
"Many other inmates are medium and small-scale drug traffickers," Ronnapong said.
Nakhon Si Thammarat Governor Wiroj Jiwarangsan said officials at the Nakhon Si Thammarat Central Prison should be transferred to root out the problem.
Ronnapong said it was clear someone alerted some inmates about yesterday's search in advance.
"We found a short message in a seized cell phone telling the recipient the search would take place in two hours. That meant many banned items might have already been disposed of before the officials arrived," he said. He believed some illicit drugs might have thrown into toilets.
Corrections Department deputy director general Sopon Thitithammapreuk said Surapon Kaewparadai had been appointed chief of the Nakhon si Thammarat Central Prison in place of Narong.
"We will conduct similar surprise searches at other prisons too to check if inmates there have also have banned items in their hands," Sopon said.
Meanwhile, police found 280,000 meth-amphetamine tablets and six kilos of crystal meth-amphetamine in three bags on a public-transport bus that was intercepted at a checkpoint in Phayao.
The bus was targeted in response to tip-offs that illicit drugs were loaded into it.
A five-hour-long investigation showed the illicit-drug-stuffed bags belonged to no passengers and Weerapong sae Wang, a young man hired to label and arrange luggage in the bus, was the most likely suspect.
Police said the investigation was ongoing to determine whether he had any other accomplices.
Oprettet af M55 d. 23-04-2012 08:05
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vild vildere vandvittig
Bt350,000 to have an iPhone
could tell that some officials had brought cell phones into the prison for inmates for a delivery fee of Bt30,000.
det kan de ikke få has på der er for mange penge i det spil
Oprettet af per1234 d. 24-04-2012 03:20
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mere nyt i sagen
Inmates create 'biggest drug network'
Nakhon Si Thammarat cons link with city gangs
An inmate drug gang in Nakhon Si Thammarat prison has linked up with counterparts in Bangkok to create the country's biggest drug network, the provincial police chief said.
Police conduct another search at the NakhonSiThammarat prison yesterday. They found more than 10 mobile phones in cells while at least 100 inmates had traces of narcotics in their urine. NUCHAREE RAKRUN
Nakhon Si Thammarat police chief Pol Maj Gen Ronapong Saikaew said inmates at his jail are working with gangs in Bang Khwang Central Prison in Bangkok.
He said a move to clamp down on the gang was compromised when details of a raid at Nakhon Si Thammarat prison were leaked a few hours before the operation began on Sunday.
Officers still found 284 mobile phones, 1,700 methamphetamine pills, or ya ba, and 50g of crystal meth, or ya ice, in prison cells. In a second raid yesterday more than 10 phones were seized and at least 100 inmates tested positive for drugs. Pol Maj Gen Ronapong said information gathered from the mobiles clearly pointed to links between drug networks in Nakhon Si Thammarat prison and Bang Khwang.
"Together they have formed Thailand's biggest drug network, which is linked to traffickers and producers in Laos and Myanmar," he said.
"They are not afraid of arrest, they work from prison."
Pol Maj Gen Ronapong said he was frustrated that some inmates had been told in advance of the planned raid.
Authorities would otherwise have seized much more, he said, because they had received a tip-off that 1kg of ya ice was delivered to the prison three days before the raid.
Pol Maj Gen Ronapong said officers were tracing drug traffickers from information found on the seized mobile phones. He added that at least 10 officials at Nakhon Si Thammarat prison were thought to be involved in the drug business and police are hunting down the official who leaked the raid.
Justice Minister Pracha Promnok said yesterday that Sunday's raid was the beginning of efforts to suppress the drug trade in prisons.
He said the campaign would expand to jails nationwide and corrupt prison staff would face harsh penalties. The Office of Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) will investigate prison staff involved in illicit businesses at prisons, including the drug trade. PACC secretary-general Pol Col Dusadee Arayawuth added that the agency is investigating three officials in Rattanaburi prison in Surin province for allegedly selling narcotics to inmates.
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Oprettet af Pen d. 24-04-2012 13:00
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Ja, det er vist en gøgerede dernede, Tv 3 fortalte i morges at 'købmanden', en gut der havde en rigtig god forretning inde i fængslet, tjente 3 millioner Bht om ugen på alt det ulovlige der var gang i derinde, selv ludere kunne man købe der !!
Så mon ikke chefen også har tjent fedt på den tid han har været der )nej)
Oprettet af ATM d. 25-04-2012 08:56
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Pen skrev:
Ja, det er vist en gøgerede dernede, Tv 3 fortalte i morges at 'købmanden', en gut der havde en rigtig god forretning inde i fængslet, tjente 3 millioner Bht om ugen på alt det ulovlige der var gang i derinde, selv ludere kunne man købe der !!
Så mon ikke chefen også har tjent fedt på den tid han har været der )nej)
ak ja intet er gratis, nu håber vi så på at det var luksus ludere der blev udlejet, mindre kan vel ikke gøre det til de priser og med den omsætning((7))
Oprettet af Pen d. 26-04-2012 03:40
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Ak ja, de er slet ikke færdige. Lige nu undrer myndighederne sig over at vagterne der ikke har en særlig stor løn, har huse til både 2 og 3 millioner Baht. Men en af vagterne der ikke er tabt bag en vogn, fortalte at samtlige 10 vagter der styrer de knap 4800 fanger, blev truet med at deres familie ville blive slået ihjel hvis de ikke tog narko og andet med ind i fængslet, super undskyldning :VI
3 af vagterne og den tidligere chef blev fængslet i går da det kom frem at dem der styrede kasino spillet indenfor, betalte 2.000 Bht pr dag til de 4, gode lommepenge ((8((
Oprettet af thai d. 28-04-2012 04:01
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The Corrections Department holds a press conference to present the results of raids held over the past six months. Confiscated items including cell phones, illicit drugs, and weapons seized from prisons nationwide. Photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd.
Oprettet af per1234 d. 29-04-2012 02:47
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nu kommer der andre boller på suppen
Nakhon Si Thammarat chief vows prison clean-up
The new warden of Nakhon Si Thammarat Prison has vowed to restore morale among law-abiding prison officials so they can work as a team to clean up the prison.
The announcement by Surapol Kaewparadai followed the discovery of messages in cellphones seized from inmates that contained evidence of their involvement in criminal activity conducted outside the prison, including Bt100 million worth of crystal meth deals, as well as trading in war weapons.
Following the recent seizure of 350 cellphones, police and related officials yesterday continued to gather evidence against inmates who deal drugs from behind bars, along with rogue prison officials. So far they have found information in SMS messages in the cellphones referring to money transactions, drug orders and drug-money transfer confirmations.
One message inquired about the possibility of paying a prison official Bt100,000 to smuggle 100 grams of crystal meth into the prison. MMS messages contained pictures taken by drug-dealing network members and sent to the inmates' cellphones about the sale outside the prison of Bt100 million worth of crystal meth and trafficking in war weapons including rifles, machine guns and pistols.
Nakhon Si Thammarat police chief Maj-General Ronnapong Saikaew said the Corrections Department should urgently act on the information obtained by police, and added that the information revealed that drug trades made as recently as Friday were ordered by someone inside Nakhon Si Thammarat Prison.
New warden Surapol, who officially starts working tomorrow, said he would first boost upstanding prison officials' morale to encourage them to join problem-solving efforts aimed at cleansing the prison of illicit activities and corruption. He said officials suspected of involvement would be moved outside the prison while police investigations and evidence-gathering was taking place, and would be dismissed from the civil service if found guilty.
Meanwhile, Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobamrung yesterday presided over a gathering of 20,000 people in Kalasin, who vowed not to get involved in drug activities. He said he would continue to crack down on narcotics-making gangs and set up special taskforce units at border provinces to stop drug smuggling into Thailand.
Meanwhile, Karreni rebel commander General Nakhaomuay (Zawlapoy), whose military base in Myanmar is opposite Tak's Pho Phra district, yesterday issued a statement saying he objected to the Thai authorities' blacklisting of drug dealers, saying it lacked evidence and tarnished his name, as well as that of the Myanmar government. He called on Thai authorities to remove his name from the list.
In related news, the director of Lamphun's Sirivej Hospital, Dr Chote Nisung, yesterday affirmed his hospital had ordered 350,000 pseudoephedrine tablets in January and February 2011 for use for the whole year, and didn't buy any more afterwards.
He said a criminal gang had used his and the hospital's names to buy some 900,000 tablets on nine occasions from May to August 2011.
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