BANGKOK — When Thai voters recently elected a joke-cracking, former massage parlor tycoon to parliament, they probably did not expect him to expose police corruption and topple the country’s police chief.
All the drama is thanks to the wise-guy tactics of Chuvit Kamolvisit, who is using his status as a lawmaker to fight the same kind of crime he used to promote.
“You need an expert … to fight corruption,” Mr. Chuvit said at a recent news conference. “I can become the specialist about corruption because I know corruption.”
He has openly admitted bribing police officers when he owned several huge Bangkok massage parlors packed with prostitutes.
After winning a July election, he stunned parliament a month later by displaying an elaborate video sting operation he arranged to show that Thailand’s biggest illegal casino appeared to be protected by police.
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