"GT200"

The Royal Thai Army has stopped conducting expensive tests on the bogus GT200 bomb detectors after the issue sparked an uproar about taxpayers’ money being wasted.

The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) has issued a statement insisting its tests on the so-called GT200 bomb-detecting devices were done transparently and in line with international standards.

A COURT yesterday once again found Avia Satcom Ltd and its top executive, Suttiwat Wattanakij, guilty of fraud, this time for supplying the fake GT200 devices to the Central Institute of Forensic Science, falsely claiming that they could detect bombs and narcotics.

Avia Satcom Co Ltd and its top executive, Suttiwat Wattanakij, were found guilty of fraud in Don Mueang Kwaeng Court on Wednesday for supplying the Justice Ministry’s Central Institute of Forensic Science with GT200 devices that it falsely claimed could detect hidden bombs and narcotics.

Thailand wasn’t the only country that bought the dowsing rod sold as a bomb detector, but it bought the most and defended it the longest

ALL MILITARY units have taken legal action against their suppliers of GT200 bomb/narcotics detectors after they were found not to work.

THE DON MUEANG Kwaeng Court yesterday handed down a guilty verdict to a company and its top executive for providing the Royal Aide-De-Camp Department with unusable GT200 bomb scanners and related supplies.

IT IS difficult for the nation’s anti-graft agency to conclude whether there was any wrongdoing in the Bt1.13-billion purchase of fake “remote substance detectors”, a member of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) said yesterday.

DON MUANG Municipal Court yesterday dismissed charges in a fraud trial filed by the Armed Forces Security Centre against Jackson Electronics (Thailand), which supplied eight faulty bomb-detecting devices known as GT200, worth Bt10.4 million, to the centre in 2007.

DEPUTY Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam revealed yesterday that state agencies did not purchase the phoney bomb detector ADE-651 - so there would be no compensation claim.

DEPUTY PRIME Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said yesterday that legal specialists were deciding whether Thailand would have to file a separate lawsuit against the producer of faulty bomb- and drug-detecting devices to claim compensation.

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