Some loose change left around the house

Suphoth Sublom was until very recently the Transport Ministry permanent secretary. An important government post which probably carries a reasonable if not excessive salary. So it must have been a terrible shock when 5 million baht in cash, earmarked for his daughter’s wedding, was stolen from his house earlier this month.

Luckily for Suphoth, the police were quickly on the case, arrested some of the perpetrators, and retrieved his 5 million. Unluckily for Suptoth, the police recovered a good deal more than the 5 million, 17.5 million so far; with estimates that as much as 100 million may have been removed from the house. Oh dear.

Suggestions have been made that the cash came from bribes received from subway line extension projects and that the robbery was commissioned by other politicians who felt they had not received their share of the loot. Personally I find it a little far fetched to suggest that a government official could be in any way involved in corruption, especially in Thailand, where the incidence of bribery and corruption is so low.

And in other news, I got stopped by the police yesterday for speeding when I wasn’t. The misunderstanding was resolved with 100 baht. I’m off round to the policeman’s house tonight to steal it back; might be buying a BMW tomorrow.

Comments 🔗

2011-11-25 | Grant says

Oh no, I’m quite sure no bribery or corruption was involved! Clearly the excess money was the result of spontaneous generation, that wonderful 17th century theory whereby if you, for instance, sealed up a dirty shirt and some wheat in a box you generated mice…

2011-11-29 | Spike says

I tried that, it didn’t work.

2011-12-02 | Grant says

That’s a shame, but I suspect your shirt wasn’t nearly dirty enough…

2012-01-20 | Jock says

Oh it´s great to have some real time off and catch on Pattaya Days … spike you have a great sense of humour which I have missed … only 2 years of posts (and comments beware) to catch up on ;-)

Reading backwards to see what you have been up to … so far 2012 is done and I´m working through 2011 … I´m looking for photograps of chicks on bikes but sadly all I´ve found so far are cameras, ponies and peonais … still I will persevere …