DSI set to tackle eight 'special' criminal activities
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has agreed to take on eight criminal activities as special issues, DSI director-general Tarit Pengdith said yesterday.
The activities are:
- Smuggling of Siamese rosewood from Nakhon Phanom, Kalasin and other areas;
- Illegally issuing title deeds on 16,700 rai of state-owned land in Phetchabun’s Lom Kao district;
- Trespassing on treasury-administered land in Ratchaburi’s Suan Phung district, as well as mining without patent permits in Loei’s Muang and Wang Saphung districts;
- 16 companies that won procurement bids in Pattaya with a forged Bt400-million guarantee from UOB Bank;
- Luring Lao women to Thailand and forcing them to go into prostitution;
- Drug-dealing networks in Narathiwat’s Sungai Kolok and other provinces;
- Gambling via Sport4X.net and other such websites; and
- Smuggling of weapons from Cambodia. The DSI and the Army have already seized a number of rocket-propelled grenades and M79 bullets.
On December 19, the Cabinet agreed to expand the scope of special cases to cover criminal cases related to computer activity, foreign-owned businesses in Thailand, human trafficking, mining, finance business, cosmetics, hazardous substances, medicine and food.
