A Thai durian middleman accused the Aranyaprathet Customs House within the Isaan province of Sa Kaeo of stealing durians worth 1.eight million baht.
The story of the durian intermediary caught hearth on Thai social media on Sunday, June 25. According to a quantity of posts on Facebook, the intermediary complained that the customs wrongly blamed him for illegally importing durians from Cambodia.
Illusive insists that he had purchased approximately eight tons of durians from an area plantation in the northeastern province of Si Sakate. He defined that he employed a truck driver to switch the durian from the Si Sakate to the central province of Chantaburi for export.
However, customs officers informed the driver that the durians were illegally imported and have to be seized.
The middleman then visited the Aranyaprathet Customs House to retrieve the durian however discovered that his products have been all sold by the authorities. He claimed that some officers confirmed him a video that all of the durians have been resold to other government departments within the province.
No strings attached criticised the authorities for their wrongdoings and demanded a proof from Thai Customs.
The Director of the Customs Department, Phachara Anantasin, yesterday insisted that the authorities had done the proper thing in accordance with the legislation. He defined that officers acquired a tip-off that a six-wheel truck would travel to a border between Thailand and Cambodia in Sa Kaeo province on June 23 to illegally purchase durians and transfer them to Chantaburi.
At 9.45am on the day, the customs authorities identified a truck matching the given description and promptly signalled the driver to pull over. The truck driver admitted that Cambodian nationals had entrusted him with the durians, resulting in the quick confiscation of the entire consignment.
Phachara revealed that the intermediary later visited the Aranyaprathet Customs House and admitted to being unaware that the Cambodian durian vendor had not obtained the necessary permissions from the authorities.
Both the truck driver and the middleman face authorized punishment but details of the charges were not disclosed.
Nevertheless, different durian middlemen in Chanthaburi did not believe the authorities’ claims. A member of the Sa Kaeo Public Network, Amahrin Yeeheng, posted on Facebook at present daring the Customs Department Director to visit the customs home earlier than defending his staff. Amahrin said…
“Dear Customs Department Director, please do not only sit at the workplace and hold a press convention. Come and examine the matter on-site. If the claims made through the press convention turned out to be unfaithful, it would point out that you’re a liar, wouldn’t it?”
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