University staff face legal action - The Nation

The Nation February 24, 2012 1:00 am

Although the staffers, of an unspecified university, had returned the money to the funds on behalf of the duped students, the crimes had been committed and they must face criminal action, directorgeneral Tharit Phengdit said yesterday.

The DSI is also looking into similar complaints or occurrences reported at 32 government and private universities, mostly located in Si Sa Ket and Ubon Ratchathani in the Northeast. Complaints were made by 47 students claiming to have been duped but were still required by the funds to repay the loans, which they never received or applied for.

According to the complaints, lecturers and staffers of universities in both provinces had offered loans and studies to students in 2006. They agreed to enrol and sign loan papers, but were never contacted. The students began making complaints to police and both funds after they were required to repay the loans in 2010.

The Krung Thai Bank, which offered the loans through the two funds, is demanding a total of Bt3,721,340 from the 47 students, who were given certain sums by the staffers, and then told they would have to repay the balance to the bank.

The first Bt4.8 billion in loans was offered through the two funds in 2006 to students at 903 colleges and universities. A new offer made a few years later brought the number of students obtaining loans to 315,000.

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