Pressure has mounted for Thai investigators to wrap up the GT200 bogus bomb detector case after a UK court this week ordered compensation be paid to affected countries from the forfeited assets of the convicted seller. Thirteen Thai agencies ranging from the armed forces and police to customs and provincial authorities spent nearly 1.4 bllion baht on 1,358 detection devices between 2006 and 2010. The devices themselves were said to have cost O about 400 million baht, with the rest of the money going to two Thai firms that acted as middlemen and have not been named The devices were used widely in the troubled southern border provinces. Critics say some deaths and injuries resulted when the devices failed to do their job, while false alarms led security officers to put innocent people in jail on suspicion of planting bombs.