Crackdown on influential figures to begin in my home town of Uthai Thani : Chada

Deputy Interior Minister Chada Thaised has announced that the crackdown of Mafia-style influential figures in Thailand must start in his home province of Uthai Thani.


Chada has been assigned by Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to take charge of suppressing influential figures across the country, in the wake of the shootings in Nakhon Pathom over a week ago, when a highway police officer was killed and another injured in the house of Praween Chanklai, aka “Kamnan Nok”, who is known to be an influential figure in the province, reputed to have connections with many police officers.


In a recent TV interview, Chada said he knows influential figures from the inside, because he used to be one of them, adding, however, that none of them are “ to big to fit through the gates of prison”.


He said that good influential people, who help people or perform good deeds, are acceptable. Bad ones, though, must be dealt with according to letter of the law.


Claiming that he knows all 70+ village and sub-district heads and chiefs of Tambon Administration Organisations (TAOs) in Uthai Thani, several of whom are known to be influential figures, he said that he will call a meeting with them and to tell them to refrain from illegal activities in which they may be involved.


Meanwhile, Interior Minister Anutin said he has been instructed by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin to get tough with such people and the problem of them illegally carrying firearms in public.


According the Interior Ministry, an “influential figure” is defined as someone who is involved in the any of the following:

• Extending informal loans to other people
• Involvement in price collusion in bids for government contracts
• Demanding protection fees from businesses or public transport
• Contraband smuggling
• Illegal gambling
• Trafficking of illegal immigrants
• Luring workers to work abroad
• Debt collection through coercion or intimidation
• The sex trade
• Hired gunmen
• Encroachment on public land
• Destruction of natural resources
• The illegal narcotics trade
• Arms trafficking

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They truly are having a laugh.

I’m surprised they didn’t get Prompow to do the biz, he’s a natural.

Har, har.

This man didn’t appear to be Thai to me so I looked him up. Found this.

Chada Thaised: Ferocious opponent of Pita’s PM bid has a dark and violence-racked history

Bhumjaithai MP Chada Thaised stole the limelight from Thailand’s top PM candidate Pita Limjaroenrat during the joint parliamentary meeting to elect a new prime minister on Thursday.


Chada’s fiery speech – which fiercely defended the monarchy and attacked Pita’s policy to amend the lese majeste law – made headlines and caught the attention of Thai politics watchers.


Father, mother, brother murdered


Born in 1961 to a Muslim family, Chada grew up in Uthai Thani. His grandfather migrated from Pakistan before settling in the northern province. His granddad was a major beef trader in the province, but Chada’s father launched into the lumber trade before switching back to selling and even exporting beef.


Though his family was wealthy thanks to the business, Chada had a tough childhood. His father was shot dead over a business conflict when Chada was just seven. When he reached the age of 14, his mother was also murdered. After his father’s death, Chada’s older brother Chaiyos Thaised took over the business, but he too was killed some seven months after their mother’s death.


Chada was barely 15 and had to grow up fast and muster strength to take over the family business. By his side was his younger sister, Mananya Thaiset. He quickly began making a name for himself in his hometown by standing up and challenging powerful and influential local figures.


Over the following decades, his business expanded to construction, mining, hotels, and real-estate.


Jump into politics


After losing his parents and being forced to become the family breadwinner at a young age, Chada had to complete his secondary schooling via a non-formal program. He later completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees in politics at Ramkhamhaeng University.


Chada made his debut in local politics when he became deputy mayor and then mayor of Uthai Thani Municipality. In 2007, he graduated to national politics, entering Parliament as a Chart Thai Party MP.


After Chart Thai was dissolved in 2008, Chada joined its successor – Chartthaipattana Party. He was reelected in the 2011 general election under the Chartthaipattana banner.


In 2018, he switched his allegiance to the Bhumjaithai Party, going on to win the seat for Uthai Thani’s Constituency 2 easily in this year’s general election with 29,742 or 46.6% of the votes cast. Chada is currently deputy leader of Bhumjaithai.


He is also reportedly behind his sister Mananya’s political rise. He supported her successful bid for the post of Uthai Thani Municipality’s mayor, then helped her land the job of deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives minister in 2019.


Mayhem and another murder


Chada was arrested on suspicion of masterminding the 2003 murder of Somkiat Chanhirun, secretary to Thai Rak Thai MP Prasang Mongkhonsiri. He denied any wrongdoing and was eventually acquitted in court in 2005.


In 2012, one of Chada’s sons, Farut Thaiset, was shot dead in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district amid widespread rumors that the shooter had mistaken him for Chada. The son was in his father’s vehicle at the time.


However, in his court testimony, the shooting suspect insisted Farut had been killed in a road rage incident. He claimed Farut’s older brother was the first to open fire before shots were exchanged.


In 2017, Chada and his entourage were targeted in a police crackdown on organized crime in Uthai Thani. A police search of their vehicles turned up six guns and one pill of MDMA or ecstasy. Chada walked free after police failed to prove the items belonged to him.


Last year, Chada was accused of slapping MP Nattawut Prasertsuwan in Parliament over an argument about time slots for parliamentary speeches. Chada, however, has insisted that he was just angry and had only walked towards the MP to clear any misunderstanding.


“I did not hit him,” he insisted.

Chada Thaised: Ferocious opponent of Pita's PM bid has a dark and violence-racked history | Thai PBS World : The latest Thai news in English, News Headlines, World News and News Broadcasts in both Thai and English. We bring Thailand to the world

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Extending informal loans to other people
Involvement in price collusion in bids for government contracts
Demanding protection fees from businesses or public transport
Contraband smuggling
Illegal gambling
Trafficking of illegal immigrants
Luring workers to work abroad
Debt collection through coercion or intimidation
The sex trade
Hired gunmen
Encroachment on public land
Destruction of natural resources
The illegal narcotics trade
Arms trafficking

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Party Pooper Alert.

In the Middle East they call well-connected crooks "influential figures" as well.

What a fucking joke.

It’s a loathsome, corrupted, lawless society and there it is.

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According the Interior Ministry, an “influential figure” is defined as someone who is involved in the any of the following:


Extending informal loans to other people
Involvement in price collusion in bids for government contracts
Demanding protection fees from businesses or public transport
Contraband smuggling
Illegal gambling
Trafficking of illegal immigrants
Luring workers to work abroad
Debt collection through coercion or intimidation
The sex trade
Hired gunmen
Encroachment on public land
Destruction of natural resources
The illegal narcotics trade
Arms trafficking

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so are they trying to find the unicorn in officialdom that hasn't been involved in one or more of those items? and just how are they going to start pointing fingers with the laws they have.

I suspect they are trying to get some people out of power positions, so they can dominate more. The fellow is truly horrible - the fact he's BJJ is a bit of a clue.

They've gotta start putting a system in place to stop the next iteration of The Move Forward party once the senate has gone (if they go). If there are any (unlikely...) non-currupt, forward thinking PT MPs then they'd be best of planning to join MF before the next election, imho. The army, PT, BJJ, some Dems (? hard to know where they are currently...) and general old school scumbags is quite a terrible coalition.

^ In other news are you going to resurrect your Korean Baseball thread?

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^ In other news are you going to resurrect your Korean Baseball thread?

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They changed the dancing girls to a less attractive lot, so I haven't been for a while. There's also a lot of baseball threads on TD currently. I could do an ITFC thread if there's demand? :)

The entire point of not having a functioning rule of law applicable to all equally is that any vested interest can exploit the people to serve its own ends according to whatever system that ensures their primacy. This current cooperative of army, clan and cartel baronies, midwifed by the coup orchestrated by a senate appointed by the army, represents yet another alliance in which all shall benefit without any valid scrutiny to the detriment of the nation.

It’s the Thai way, and it will never change because this society is incapable of developing into anything other than what it already is, a medieval feudal serfdom.

Ghastly people really, quite, quite awful.

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It’s the Thai way

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as outlined in this article in the BKKPost today

MFP takes aim at minister for 'Boss' help