Thailand corrupt as ever

Thailand is as corrupt as ever and even if the traffic police is on the top of the most corrupt I think that the most serious cases are the land department. 1000 of rai each year are transferred to people in power taken from the poor. You can only bribe somebody if you have money and that makes the poor people a easy target.

In Samui motorbike gangs have been known to buy huge areas of land with people from the land department on land that was not allowed and many national parks are being exploited as well.

The government needs to do a big crack down on all land transfer and set up and approval system that stop this kind of corruption.

Another corrupt department is the customs department and the government is loosing million of dollars each year because the customs officers take money to let goods inside the country.

Here is the clip from NACC with the rest of the corrupt agencies

The top five state agencies and officers that businessmen had to pay “extra money” to during the past five months of this year were the Land Department (72.22%), followed by tambon administration organizations (68.52%), provincial administration organizations (60.52%), highways and traffic police (59.08%), and local politicians and influential figures (44.76%).
State agencies where most respondents said they experienced graft include the Customs Department (12.2%) followed by tambon administration organizations (7.8%), and the Land Department (4.8%).
About 17% of respondents said they had come into contact with corrupt politicians.
According to the study, 19% of corrupt practices in the state sector involved officials thinking up unnecessary projects, 14% involved abusing inside information for personal benefits, particularly to buy land, and about 9% was related to bid collusion.