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graft claim over official

By The Nation
Published on August 26, 2008

A Commerce Ministry

A Commerce Ministry official has been accused of graft in the form of asking for bribes from entertainment businessmen to allow them to import machinery into Thailand.

An entertainment-industry source said they had encountered problems with an "influential ministry official" asking for money to facilitate their requests.

"The influential official wanted to collect 10 per cent of the value of machinery the companies must import for producing entertainment products," said the source.

The combined value of the machinery is Bt50 million.

Usually, any company wanting to import machinery must inform the ministry's Intellectual Property Department but pay nothing for the request.

So far, four entertainment companies have asked for ministry permission to import machinery.

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