Supachot, People's Party MP, exposes the '4 masked culprits' hoarding oil and urges Minister Phiphat to reveal who profits from the energy crisis.
On 25 March 2026, Supachot Chaisatj, a party-list MP of the People's Party (Pop Pan), fiercely debated in parliament, exposing a massive oil hoarding operation profiting amid public hardship. He identified the '4 masked culprits' responsible: 1. Oil refineries whose production data the state refuses to disclose, 2. Oil depots, 3. Middlemen—citing a case of hoarding 300,000 liters in Ang Thong Province ignored by the government, and 4. Hundreds of oil transport trucks unusually idle, likely tools for hoarding. He also revealed smuggling of Thai oil abroad to nearly double profits.
Supachot stated these 'masked culprits' clearly have greater capacity to hoard oil than ordinary citizens. He dropped a major accusation, saying that the person who knows this issue best is Transport Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, given his expertise and experience in the energy business. He ended by questioning the government’s four-week silence: Is the failure to plug the leaks due to inefficiency, or is there deliberate collusion to profit from the energy crisis that worsens public suffering?