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The sheer injustice. Nobody had worked harder to pay off the police with wine, women, wristwatches and sacks full of cash. And now this. ''I'm like a mad dog now and I'll bite anyone,'' said Chuwit Kamolvisit, the owner of six industrial-size massage parlors who is proud to be known as Thailand's sex tycoon. ''I used to buy whole trays of Rolex watches for police officers,'' he said in one of his almost daily news conferences. ''I used to carry cash in black plastic bags for them. But they are still harassing me.'' In the dim netherworld of Thailand's black economy, it is hard to know just who is doing what to whom. But somehow Chuwit seems to have lost his …


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