If you are a robber or a member of a robbing gang, where will you hit? If you have any sense, you’d go where you are bloody sure the money is, wouldn’t you? And that’s where one group of robbers did last week and walked out with 200 million in cash.Assuming you have not followed recent news closely, you’d wonder where these robbers went to: a bank headquarter, a jewelry store, the printer of bank notes, a billionaire’s residence? The answers will be all wrong, because the correct answer is the home of the Permanent Secretary of Transport! Hah? A home of a high-rank government officer, whose pay will run up to a few million bahts a year (my guess of course).
According to the original news, the owner reported the robbery that cash and valuables of 700,000 bt was missing. Apparently, six were involved in this incident when the owners are not home; two maids were tied up and locked in an upstairs bathroom though. When I first read the piece, I was not particularly interested, though 0.7 million stuck me as rather high on cash and valuables kept at home. I simply assumed that the misses probably keeps diamonds around, etc.
The - - - - hits the roof when two robbers were arrested and confessed. And who ever heard of robbers got arrested and leave alone confessed with left over cash in possession. At the press conference yesterday, the two robbers said that the robbery was planned months ahead of time, and that there were more than a billion baht in the house. They managed only to take 200 million out, for shortage of sacks brought with them I think. The interesting part is the way they split the cash. The robber chief, still at large, takes 30%, with 20% shared among the five in the team. The other 50% is to be handed over to the chief’s boss, a government officer, reported the robber under the police custody.
I believe you all are wondering the same things:
1) How would an honest government officer, however high ranks he has, come up with such fortune?
2) Why the hell does he keep it at home instead of some safer places like commercial banks or safety deposit boxes (cabinets)? I presume a billion of bahts takes up a lot of space, I wouldn’t know for sure of course.
3) Obviously, somebody else is aware of this fortune being kept at this home and managed to get it robbed. Who can this guy be? His enemy, his subordinate? A guy from the opposite political party?
4) How come the police is so efficient this time? Is this an attempt to discredit someone, or a threat that if some party does not cooperate, the same fate will follow? Keep your cash well, otherwise we’ll get to it and expose you?
5) Is this high-ranking guy, the home owner I mean, really involved, or he’s simply a scapegoat. I’ve been around long enough to suspect that things are not normally what it appears.
6) How is this all going to end? Or will it just disappear from the news all of a sudden, when some behind-the-scene negotiation or threat is accomplished.
Stay tuned for further news, or not.
Note to readers: Please, I’m not making any of this up. You can read for yourself, from the following link- if you can read Thai that is. If not, I’m sure the English papers will have this covered I’m sure.
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