The army on Tuesday admitted one of its doctors had cheated other Thai soldiers stationed in South Sudan out of 170,000 baht by giving them fake shots instead of flu vaccines, which he later sold for private gain.
The offence took place last year when the field doctor, a lieutenant whose name was not revealed, and 247 Thai soldiers of the Thai Horizontal Military Engineering Company, were stationed in the African country on a United Nations-led peacekeeping mission.
It came to light after UN officials noticed the vaccine looked suspicious, Lt Gen Chaowalit Sangkharit, spokesman of the Royal Thai Armed Forces…
