Connections?

In an AP story, it was reported that police in Thailand had arrested “the head of a company suspected of cheating overseas buyers of millions of dollars they paid for undelivered medical rubber gloves during the coronavirus pandemic.”

This followed a US company, Rock Fintek, filing a complaint that a Bangkok-based company, Sufficiency Economy City “failed to deliver 2 million boxes of nitrile gloves worth $15.5 million for which it had paid a 40% deposit.” Other complaints were lodged from overseas companies.

Kampee. Clipped from the Bangkok Post

Sufficiency Economy City Co., marketed gloves branded SkyMed. The arrest was of the Sufficiency Economy City’s CEO Kampee Kampeerayannon, a renowned, self-promoting, ultra-royalist. He is chairman of the Thai People Council for the Nation, Religion, King.

A day earlier, “a Thai employee of Paddy the Room Trading Co., Pipatpon Homjanya, was sentenced to four years in prison.”

Who on earth would trust a company called “Paddy in the Room”? But “Sufficiency Economy City” carries monarchist meaning.

Paddy in the Room “had exported millions of substandard and in some cases secondhand gloves to the United States…”. Its managing director, “Luk-fei Yang Yang, identified by police and corporate records as Chinese, left Thailand before prosecutors were able to formally charge him in court.”

Millions and millions of dollars are involved.

In a report at The Nation, Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit was quick to claim that “the scandal of used medical gloves being exported to the US has not affected Thailand’s export sector.” Indeed, he claimed the “Thai export sector untouched by used gloves scandal…”.

Police went to Sufficiency Economy City Co. Ltd., and arrested Kampee, who carries a military rank. The charges were “fraud and presenting fake information online…”.

From SkyMed website

Meanwhile, Skymed had sued Paddy the Room for damages and sought to distance itself from Paddy, with a hasty disclaimer (see right).

The ultra-royalist and ultra-nationalist displays his good work at the SkyMed website. As a royalist with military training, the ridiculous Kampee knows that the way out of problems (in Thailand) is to make stuff up. He gave a bizarre interview to CNN:

On Wednesday in a lengthy on-camera interview with CNN, SkyMed’s CEO Kampee Kampeerayannon denied his company was part of any repackaging operation occurring in the warehouse when it was raided.

“The owner of the warehouse, they just wanted to repack our brand and export it,” he said.

Kampeerayannon said if any gloves are exported from Thailand under the SkyMed brand, it is “not under our permission,” he told CNN.

The CEO said Paddy the Room was “one of hundreds” of SkyMed brokers which had permission to sell and promote SkyMed gloves, though he says the relationship ended over a year ago.

From SkyMed website

Yet, SkyMed has other warnings, like this one (right) where the English and Thai are different.

As CNN reports, it is a mystery where SkyMed, “sources its gloves”:

… the company has an import license to bring in medical gloves made in Vietnam, but records show SkyMed has never imported medical gloves to Thailand, nor does the company manufacture its own gloves….

Kampee … acknowledged to CNN that SkyMed does not have its own factory and does not have a license to produce medical gloves in Thailand.

After giving CNN contradictory answers about the number of glove suppliers it has in Thailand, he ultimately said there was just one.

Kampeerayannon claimed SkyMed has filled orders for one hundred million boxes of gloves but would not say who had purchased them.

He told CNN that US musician Nikki Lund had helped finance an order for 144 billion boxes of SkyMed gloves — a claim that Lund emphatically denied to CNN as “not possible and ridiculous.”

If nothing else, this case suggests that this is another dubious character seeking to profit through royalist allusions, illusions, and claims. Kampee has had many recent self-promoting advertorials at the Bangkok Post. Recent propaganda is here and here.

While all this royalist, nationalist, Buddhist propaganda was belched out, there were warnings of problems from 2020 (see right).

The Skymed website promotes falsehoods:

Our research team has pioneered the latest technology gloves.

Whether its medical or any other miscellenous work, our gloves can be used efficiently

TRUSTWORTHINESS IS WHAT WE FOCUSED

” We are enthusiastic to always provide our customer with the highest quality product.

Assurance of the best product is therefore key “

The obvious questions are: was this royalist associated with the regime? Was he associated with royals? If not, how could it so brazenly advertise itself as thoroughly royal? And, of course, there’s the question of who benefited from the millions gained through fraud? Is anyone following the money trail?