Anutin confident Chada can root out mafia links

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Monday expressed confidence in the ability of his deputy, Chada Thaiset, to succeed in a new attempt to tackle mafia-style gangs and curb their influence on local administrative organisations nationwide.

The minister last week assigned Mr Chada to lead a nationwide screening of all influential local leaders suspected of involvement with mafia-like gangs and have them blacklisted if links are uncovered.

The assignment was made in response to a violent incident in which one highway patrol officer was gunned down and another injured during an incident at a dinner party at the home of an influential local leader in Nakhon Pathom’s Muang…