Anutin urged to cut off power supply to scam centre in Myawaddy

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul was pressed today (Jan.23) to cut off Thailand’s power supply for suspected transnational criminals in Myanmar once and for all.

People’s MP Rangsiman Rome, who chairs the House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs & National Strategies and Reforms, called on Anutin to take action to the extent that the Provincial Electricity Authority immediately, completely stop supplying power across Moei River from Mae Sot district of Tak to Myanmar’s Myawaddy township because, he said, it is consumed by suspected call-centre scammers and drug dealers preying on victims in Thailand.

Karen National Army leader Saw Chit Thu had allegedly opened a nominee firm to buy power from the PEA with power poles across the Thai-Myanmar border river for daily use by those transnational criminals, according to the People’s MP.

Rangsiman said he had repeatedly raised concerns about those call-centre scammers and drug dealers clandestinely perpetrating crimes in jeopardy of Thailand’s national security affairs but nothing has been as yet done on the part of the Thai authorities, especially the PEA, to stop them.

”Given the role of the Ministry of Interior which is in charge of the PEA, Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has the legal authority to cut it off once and for all.

”Do not prompt the people to spread gossip about you to the extent that you are allegedly, terminally involved in those transnational, criminal networks,” the People’s MP said in reference to Anutin who was absent from the weekly House interpellation today.

Anutin concurrently acts as leader of the Bhumjaithai, the second largest coalition partner steered by de facto party boss Newin Chidchob.

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People’s MP Rangsiman Rome. Top photo: INN News, Front Page photo: Naewna

Insert: Deputy Prime Ministr-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. Photo: Naewna

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