The owners of about a dozen illegal gambling dens in Bangkok pay regular bribes to a whole range of police, from area superintendents to high-ranking officers attached to the Royal Thai Police Office, Pol Lt-Col Santhana Prayoonrat, the disgraced Special Branch police officer, said in his recent testimony before the House Committee on Police Affairs. Each den paid up to 10 million baht per month in cash in return for police turning a blind eye to their illicit businesses, he…
