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Bribes Totaled Over 36 Million Baht, DSI File Shows Evidence Indicates Payments from Finnish Berry Industry Brokers

The Isaan Record has obtained evidence from files of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) indicating that two politicians and five high-ranking officials accepted cash bribes from brokers linked to Finnish berry companies.

The evidence includes text messages and images from chat conversations showing agents delivering money to Thai officials, including a case in which a former Minister of Labor allegedly accepted a box packed with cash. All told, the total amount of bribes was more than 36 million baht [about €900,000].

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The Berries Blues

The Isaan Record has spent over two years following the movement of Thai berry pickers in Finland and Sweden, and found the practices of companies and procedures used by related government agencies between 2010 to now to be problematic. Civil-society organizations claim that these companies and governments might have been involved, wittingly or not, in one of the biggest transnational human trafficking networks ever encountered.

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The Berries Blues

The Isaan Record has spent over two years following the movement of Thai berry pickers in Finland and Sweden, and found the practices of companies and procedures used by related government agencies between 2010 to now to be problematic. Civil-society organizations claim that these companies and governments might have been involved, wittingly or not, in one of the biggest transnational human trafficking networks ever encountered.

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Based in Khon Kaen, The Isaan Record focuses on social, political and environmental issues in the northeastern region of Thailand, known as Isaan. Today, the 21 million inhabitants of the poorest region of Thailand have political and social critiques of their own, but almost no voice in popular media. By reporting on the grassroots issues of the region, The Isaan Record offers more insight into the lives of those Northeasterners who are fighting for institutional change in Thailand.

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