http://www.nationmultimedia.com/new/201 ... 01_big.jpgThe Land office is the most corrupt agency in the Thai bureaucracy, while police are ranked second in this dubious list where households needed to make illegal payments to facilitate their service, according to an academic survey.
The survey titled "Corruption in the Thai Bureaucracy in 2014: A Survey of Attitudes and Experiences of Heads of Households" by Chulalongkorn University's Pasuk Phongpaichit found that 7.2 per cent of 6,048 heads of Thai households said they were asked for a bribe by officials at land offices whenever contacted for a service, while 6.1 per cent said police personnel asked for money from them.
Land offices, which come under the Department of Lands, are the key agency for all transactions and documentation involving sale or purchase of land. The office is authorised to charge a fee but officials demand extra money to speed up work or legalise some grey documents, the survey revealed.
The Departments of Customs and Land Transport also took bribes, but only 2.4 and 1.9 per cent respectively of households in the survey said they needed to offer bribes to officials for their services, Pasuk said.
Dabei handelt es sich aber nur um die vom Geber zugegebene Bestechung,
also die relativen Peanuts Zahlungen.
Die richtigen Zahlungen werden von ganz Anderen geleistet die auch entsprechende
Gegenleistungen bekommen.
Ich bin in 30 Jahren Thailand nur einmal Beteiligter gewesen.
Als wir unsere Hochzeit beim Tambon Office in Bang Na
dokumentieren lassen wollten, lehnte die Beamtin meine
Ehefähigkeitsbescheinigung aus LUX ab und verlangte
von meiner Frau 20.000 THB.
Da haben wir dankend auf das schön bemalte aber für
uns beide wertlose Papier verzichtet.