A Fisheries Department official has been sacked after he was caught red-handed with three illegal Myanmar border crossers in a fisheries vehicle in Kanchanaburi province.
Director-general Chalermchai Suwannarak said on Monday he had signed an order dismissing Wutthiwong Sukmongkol, 35, with immediate effect.
Mr Wutthiwong was arrested by soldiers on Saturday for helping smuggle people into Thailand.
Mr Chalermchai also shunted Mr Wutthiwong’s supervisor, chief of the fisheries checkpoint at ฺBan Phu Nam Ron in Muang district, to the head office in Bangkok pending an…