Oct 7, 2011
Bangkok Post
Rak Thailand Party leader Chuvit Kamolvisit dropped a bombshell yesterday a day ahead of the start of the rice mortgage scheme, playing two video clips which he claimed provided evidence of rice smuggling from Cambodia via Sa Kaeo province.
The clips were screened before the House during an interpellation session on the government's rice mortgage scheme which kicks off today.
He claimed that one clip showed rice smuggling from Cambodia via Khlong Nam Sai in Sa Kaeo's Aranyaprathet district. The packaging of paddy rice was changed from fertiliser sacks to gunny sacks when it arrived on the Thai side.
The other video featured workers carrying sacks of rice across bridges along the border after being transported to the border on a 20-wheeler trailer.
Mr Chuvit claimed the activity took place in an area under the jurisdiction of the 12th Border Patrol Police company. Mr Chuvit said the rice was purchased at a price of 8,000 baht per tonne and the smugglers planned to sell it for 15,000 baht a tonne under the government's rice mortgage scheme.
He said that unlike gambling den clips he screened earlier, he could not produce more evidence out of concern for his safety. "The parliament has ordered a suit for me. I think I need an armoured suit," he said. The government has promised to investigate.
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