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Man gets 4 years in prison for exporting used medical gloves and equipment! He knowingly endangered the health of others and could have brought in more viruses!
Inferior gloves and equipment imported
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A Thai man has been sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of manufacturing used or substandard medical gloves and equipment and shipping them to the United States, the Thai Attorney General’s Office announced.
The sentencing is part of a larger crackdown in Thailand on growing rubber glove fraud, the Associated Press reports.
Consciously used fake boxes
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Pipatpon Homjanya was an employee of Paddy the Room Trading Co. which Thai officials say exported millions of boxes of gloves that had been packed without authorization in cartons made by a legitimate glove manufacturer.
While Pipatpon was convicted of using another company’s trademark and manufacturing and trading in substandard gloves and equipment, according to Thai media, the CEO of Paddy the Room has yet to face trial. Luk-fei Yang Yang, identified in police and company documents as Chinese, left Thailand before prosecutors could file formal charges in court, AP reported.
Paddy the Room was targeted by investigators in May when it arrested an American businessman who complained he had been defrauded by the company.
Multiple arrests!
Louis Ziskin and several associates were arrested for allegedly detaining a Taiwanese representative of another company, Collections Enterprise, to unsuccessfully pressure him to repay the money after Paddy the Room’s gloves were found to be substandard. Collections Enterprise had handled the payment for the deal.
Ziskin, who denies being involved in the alleged arrest, had paid $2.7 million for gloves to be shipped to his Los Angeles-based company, AirQueen. In March, he filed a complaint with Thai police against Paddy the Room.
Ziskin and his associates left Thailand when police failed to produce evidence in time to apply to a court to hold them for further investigation, police Lieutenant-General Jirabhob Bhuridej said.
Thai police on Wednesday announced the arrest of the head of another company suspected of defrauding overseas buyers of millions of dollars they paid for undelivered rubber medical gloves during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jirabhob said Florida-based Rock Fintek filed a complaint that Thailand’s Sufficiency Economy City Co. failed to deliver 2 million boxes of nitrile gloves worth $15.5 million for which it had paid a 40 percent deposit.
He said two other companies from France and Hong Kong had also filed complaints against Sufficiency Economy City Co, which distributes SkyMed brand gloves.
The Thai company’s CEO, Kampee Kampeerayannon, was arrested Tuesday on charges of fraud and posting false information on the Internet, he said. Kampee could not be contacted Wednesday, and his company declined to comment.