In Mae Sot district, Tak province, three Registration Department officials have come underneath scrutiny for allegedly accepting 30 million baht in bribes to problem identification playing cards to 700 Myanmar migrants during the last three months. Mae Sot’s mayor, Prasert Puanglakorn, has signed an order quickly reassigning the implicated officers to non-active posts in different departments whereas the municipality conducts an investigation.
The coveted pink card is provided to foreigners registered in the house registration system as proof of legality. Lasting for ten years, this card allows individuals to use for employment. The registration officers in query allegedly distributed ID cards to 700 Myanmar individuals, together with each refugees and affiliated members of rebel groups like the People’s Defence Forces, which is presently lively in Myanmar’s Kayah state.
According to a source, these officials issued 15 to twenty ID playing cards day by day for the previous three months, charging forty,000 to a hundred,000 baht (US$1,152 to 2,880) for each card, amassing 28 to 30 million baht (US$806,219 to 863,806) in bribes. It stays unclear how news of this fraudulent card-issuing spread, Bangkok Post reported. Tak governor Somchai Kitcharoenrungroj acquired a substantial number of complaints from locals and different officers about bribery.
Odd shaped on the Mae Sot district workplace with migrants registering for pink ID cards, irritating Thai residents who needed to register or renew their own IDs. Governor Somchai subsequently ordered an investigation into the registration division at the Mae Sot district office.
During a go to to the home of a Thai agent, officials found that the names of over 100 Myanmar migrants had been added to his home registration. The investigation will now broaden its scope..