A Phuket assistant governor has been arrested on charges of acting as a middleman in a recruitment scam in which three victims allegedly paid a total of 900,000 baht in bribes.
Police from the Anti-Corruption Division (ACD) executed an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct on Friday evening, detaining Mr Rungruang Thimabut, who is accused of facilitating illegal payments linked to local government recruitment examinations.