A Bangkok school director has been suspended for allegedly extorting money from a supplier of student lunches and keeping it in his office.
The director is accused of demanding a one-time payment of 329,000 baht plus 9,000 baht a month from the vendor in exchange for renewing the latter’s contract for the current semester, said Wantanee Watana, deputy permanent secretary of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
The contractor complained to the police about the financial burden the suspect imposed, and police then arranged for a sting operation, he said, adding police had the contractor hand over the money on Wednesday before making an arrest.
Paitoon Phumchor, 58, who was newly appointed as director of Bangchan School in Klong Sam Wa district, was arrested that evening, said…
