More than 90,000 sacks of rice pledged to the government were found to have disappeared from a warehouse in Pathum Thani’s Muang district during a raid yesterday. Second Infantry Regiment officers led by Col Suksan Nongbualang, chief of the regiment, searched Phoenix Agritec (Thailand) Co’s rice warehouse in tambon Bangkadi after a tip-off that the grain had been stolen. At one of the five buildings in the warehouse, 91,000 sacks of rice were found to be missing from a supposed stock of 130,000 sacks
The missing rice is worth about 69 million baht, Col Suksan said.