Economic Stimulus for Villages Still Rife With Graft
New inquiries by Thailand’s Office of the Auditor-General expose a similar model of alleged dishonesty in the Democrat-led government’s community sufficiency economy system and in the former Thaksin administration’s village development fund.
In a recent interview with the Bangkok Post, Auditor-General Jaruvan Maintaka said money has been skimmed from the Community Sufficiency Economy Project through a series of purchase schemes which have inflated prices and are unessential.
She stated that deliberate mismanagement, poor public participation and lack of awareness among local area members might have allowed loopholes for those who would fleece the program.
She continued,”This pattern doesn’t differ from the SML scheme at all – except that the SML was so rife with fraud.”
The Thaksin administration’s village development fund, then known as the SML scheme, was a piece of a community finance program started under the then current government to improve the economy.
The government grants were distributed to villages in the form of loans in relation to the size of the village.
The community sufficiency economy scheme was originally created by the Abhisit administration specificly to repair the flaws in the SML scheme.
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