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Thailand Agencies to Help Prosecute Borrowers.

Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)

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Byline: Wichit Chantanusornsiri

Oct. 3--A new law might be passed to enable state agencies to take more co-ordinated action against delinquent borrowers.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last month said that agencies such as the Revenue Department and the Anti-Money Laundering Office would be enlisted to help prosecute "strategic NPLs", or borrowers who deliberately defaulted on their loans despite the means to pay.

Non-performing loans in the financial system totalled 776.3 billion baht at the end of June, 15.69 percent of total loans.

Local banks say that even with steady economic growth, credit discipline remains weak in the ...

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