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‘Extortion’ principal: It’s not my money

School lunch supplier asked to pay more than B300,000 to keep contract, say police

Police examine cash on the desk of the director of Bangchan School in Klong Sam Wa district of Bangkok on Wednesday. (Photo supplied)

The director of a Bangkok school has been suspended for allegedly extorting money from a supplier of student lunches, while insisting that the cash found in his office belonged to someone else.

The director is accused of demanding a one-time payment of 329,000 baht plus 9,000 baht a month from the lunch vendor in exchange for renewing the latter’s contract for the current semester, said Wantanee Watana, deputy permanent secretary of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

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