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If I were you I would write this thesis "Thai Tourism Industry Needs a Complete Cleanup."
Main themes: 1. Most tour operators are too mean. They don't normally pay tour guides any salary. That's why tour guides have to cheat tourists. 2. All tourist traps must be eradicated. 3. The TAT needs a cleanup too.
Take a look at this:
GREEN
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY United States: Department of Justice
ENTITIES/INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED Gerald Green Patricia Green
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS International film festival
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS Los Angeles, California, United States
NATIONALITY OF FOREIGN OFFICIALS Thailand
SUMMARY OF ALLEGATIONS Gerald and Patricia Green, Los Angeles-area film executives, were charged with, and found guilty of, conspiracy and substantive violations of the FCPA and money laundering laws in connection with a bribery scheme through which the defendants secured a series of Thai government contracts, including valuable contracts to manage and operate the country's annual film festival.
In the second superseding indictment filed on March 11, 2009, the Greens were charged with paying kickbacks to the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand ("TAT") - Juthamas Siriwan- in exchange for contracts to manage and operate the annual Bangkok International Film Festival, as well as contracts to supply an elite tourism privilege card that was marketed to wealthy foreigners. Between 2002 and 2007, the Greens allegedly paid approximately $1.8 million in bribes to former governor Siriwan through numerous bank accounts in Singapore, the UK and the Isle of Jersey that were held in the name of Siriwan's daughter (Jittisopa Siriwan) and Siriwan's friend. The Green's businesses earned over $13.5 million in revenue as a result of the contracts obtained.
According to evidence presented at trial, the Greens, in furtherance of the conspiracy, utilized a variety of business entities, some of which had dummy business addresses and telephone numbers, in their communications with TAT in an effort to conceal the large amount of money that was being paid under the contracts. The evidence also demonstrated that the Greens disguised the bribes, which were made through the intermediaries' foreign bank accounts for the benefit of former governor Siriwan, as sales commission payments.
RATIO OF IMPROPER PAYMENTS TO BUSINESS ADVANTAGE
Approximate Payments to the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Resulting Revenue from Film Festival and Tourism Card Contracts $1.8 million $13.5 million
HOW CONDUCT WAS DISCOVERED The Greens were arrested on December 18, 2007 on charges of conspiring to pay more than $1.7 million in bribes to former TAT governor Siriwan in return for the contracts to administer the annual Bangkok International Film Festival. On October 1, 2008, the grand jury returned a superseding indictment adding new charges alleging bribery of Siriwan in exchange for the elite privilege card contracts, as well as money laundering charges and allegations that Mrs. Green knowingly subscribed two false U.S. corporate income tax returns. ENFORCEMENT RESULT On September 11, 2009, following a two-and-a-half week trial in the Central District of California, a federal jury found Gerald and Patricia Green guilty of conspiracy and substantive violations of the FCPA and money laundering laws. Patricia Green was also found guilty of falsely subscribing U.S. income tax returns in connection with the same set of conduct.
The conspiracy and substantive FCPA charges each carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison, while each of the money laundering charges carry a maximum penalty of up to twenty years in prison. The false subscription of a U.S. income tax return charge carries a three-year maximum penalty and a fine not greater than $100,000. In its December 14, 2009 response to the pre- sentence report for Gerald Green, the government argued that his sentencing range should be life in prison.
On August 12, 2010, the Greens were each sentenced to six months in prison followed by six months of home confinement and were each ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution. The government is appealing the sentences.
On January 19, 2010, an indictment against former TAT governor Juthamas Siriwan and her daughter, Jittisopa Siriwan, was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The indictment charges the Siriwans with conspiracy to commit money laundering, transporting funds to promote unlawful activity (bribery of a foreign official), and aiding and abetting. If convicted, they each face up to twenty years in prison.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
● The DOJ will bring criminal charges against individual executives for FCPA violations, independent of separate corporate accountability. ● The DOJ may bring charges related to other criminal violations uncovered in the course of an FCPA investigation. ● The DOJ can utilize the breadth of DOJ and FBI resources both in the U.S. and abroad when conducting international investigations of corruption. ● While district court judges typically approve the settlement agreements reached between the DOJ and defendants facing FCPA charges, some judges will push back on the amount of fines or lengths of sentences requested, resulting in less onerous outcomes for defendants.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
DOJ Press Release: September 14, 2009 (Film Executive and Spouse Found Guilty of Paying Bribes to a Senior Thai Tourism Official to Obtain Lucrative Contracts)
Jury Instructions (September 11, 2009)
Government's Supplemental Notice of Intent to Raise Issues of Foreign Law (July 29, 2009)
Second Superseding Indictment (March 11, 2009)
Parties' Joint Status Memo (December 15, 2008)
First Superseding Indictment (October 1, 2008)
Post-Indictment Restraining Order (November 6, 2008)
FBI Affidavit (December 7, 2007)
Government Response to Gerald Green Pre-Sentence Report (December 14, 2009)
Indictment: U.S. v. Juthamas Siriwan, aka "the Governor," and Jittisopa Siriwan, aka "Jib" (January 28, 2009)
Notice of Appeal: U.S. v. Gerald Green (October 8, 2010)
CASE CATEGORIES Entertainment/Film Prosecution of Individuals
Source: https://secure.traceinternational.org/compendium/pdf.asp?id=14
Full details on US DOJ site: http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/cases/siriwan.html http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/cases/greeng.html
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