THAILAND : -- Military personnel, police and local government officials conducted simultaneous checks of warehouses in four provinces.
On Thursday was the start of the on-the-spot probe into alleged corruption conspiracy involving politicians, local authorities and warehouse operators in the rice pledging scheme.
Warehouse owners were earlier alleged to have swindled the pledged rice kept in their warehouses with reports of rice missing from the stockpiles and substitution of high rice quality with inferior quality.
Inspection teams comprising of officials from various agencies carried out random inspections at four rice warehouses in Ayutthaya, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Ratchasima and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces.
The ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) ordered check of quality and quantity of rice sold by farmers under the rice-pledging scheme, sponsored by the recent ousted government. Under the NCPO’s instruction, inspection teams will visit all rice warehouses in the country with deadline to finish within a month.
Inspection of a warehouse in Muang district of Nakhon Si Thammarat province in the South revealed some 200 sacks used to contain rice grains were different from the rest in the warehouse.
But no rice was missing from the warehouse.
The inspection team was informed that the warehouse received pledged rice from several mills so it had different sacks of rice.
The team members also took samples of rice there for laboratory examination.
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