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Becoming clearer
This story is finally starting to make some sense. Yesterday, it sounded like two companies were renting vans and then refusing to pay the full rental fees and, worse yet, refusing to give back the vans. That sounded like a sure way of getting those involved some serious time in jail. From today's story, we find out the plan was a bit more complex, but it probably still won't keep the swindlers out of jail. Also find out who is thought to have helped them.

fee - money paid for a service ค่าธรรมเนียม
complex - having a lot of details or parts making it complicated ที่ซับซ้อน
swindlers - people who cheat someone in order to get their money คนฉ้อโกง

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Crooked police part of vehicle-hire racket
A lieutenant-colonel among the suspects

A group of police has been part of a vehicle-hire racket which has stolen an estimated 1,000 cars, a senior police officer said yesterday.

Two officers from the Special Branch suspected of involvement were expected to surrender today, Metropolitan Police chief Aswin Khwanmuang said.

Another suspect was a police lieutenant-colonel in the Economic and Cyber Crime Division.

Pol Lt-Gen Aswin said national police chief Seripisuth Temiyavej had ordered an immediate investigation and the arrest of all those involved.

Jutti Thammanowanit, who oversees car theft cases, had been a__igned to set up an investigation team, which would make daily progress reports.

The move followed the discovery of a missing minivan in the compound of the Royal Thai Police headquarters in Pathumwan district on Tuesday.

The owner was shocked to see his vehicle in the Special Branch parking lot when he and other victims of the racket arrived to file complaints.

Police said a bogus car rental company had deceived people into buying brand-new vehicles and then renting them out through the firm.

The company then arranged to have the vehicles stolen and sold in neighbouring countries.

Pol Maj-Gen Jutti said as many as 1,000 vehicles could have been stolen through rackets like this.

So far, complaints have been filed by victims in Min Buri and Bang Phlad districts against two firms - Paradise Car Rent Co and Yufuku Decorate Co.

Paradise Car Rent owner Thanchanok Deesantia, 35, and Yufuku owner Natnarin Moohammad will be charged with swindling, he said.

Mrs Thanchanok and her alleged accomplices were arrested on Sunday. Miss Natnarin and three other suspects were still at large.

Pol Maj-Gen Jutti said police detectives would find out if there were other gangs operating in the same way.

Meantime, a nationwide alert had been issued for stolen vehicles, especially in government office compounds since one of the suspects claimed these areas were used as ''safe'' parking lots by the thieves.

Meanwhile, the Institute of Forensic Medicine is prosecuting 21 police officers and three civilians over the embezzlement of 1.15 million baht in fees paid by relatives of the dead for formaldehyde injections, used for embalming corpses, between 2004 and 2006.

The action follows a recent investigation by the Office of the Auditor-General.

crooked - dishonest and likely to do illegal things, especially in order to get money ขี้โกง คดในข้อ งอในกระดูก
suspect - a person who is thought to have committed a crime ผู้ต้องสงสัย
racket - an illegal activity that makes money การหาเงินจากกิจกรรมที่ผิดกฎหมาย
surrender - to allow yourself to be taken by the police ยอมจำนน
oversee - to watch something in order to check that it is done or working in the correct way ควบคุมดูแล
theft - the crime of stealing การลักทรัพย์
compound - an enclosed area, often with several buildings in it บริเวณ
headquarters - the place where an organisation or company has its main offices กองบัญชาการ / กองบังคับการ
bogus - not real, although pretending to be real ปลอม
deceived - tricked someone by behaving in a dishonest way หลอกลวง
filed - took an official action ยื่นคำร้อง
victims - people who have been harmed, injured or killed as the result of a crime เหยื่อ
alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved ที่ถูกกล่าวหา
accomplices - people who help another person to do something illegal or wrong ผู้สมคบคิด
at large - (of someone wanted by the police) not yet caught or ยังลอยนวล
alert - a warning that something bad or dangerous has happened or is likely to happen เตือน
forensic - relating the use of scientific methods to solve crimes and to find out who committed them เกี่ยวกับนิติเวช
prosecuting - official trying to prove in court that someone is guilty of a crime การดำเนินคดี
embezzlement - the crime of stealing money that you have been trusted by other people to keep as part of your job ยักยอกเงิน
injection - the process of putting a drug or other substance into the body using a needle ฉีดยา
embalming - preserving a dead body using chemicals อาบยาศพ
corpses - dead bodies ศพ