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The scandal involving the bogus GT200 bomb detectors seems to return to haunt the government every now and again. Most recently, another element to the controversial procurement order was revealed by Move Forward Party MP for Chachoengsao, Jira Thongsuwan, during a House debate on next year’s budget. He said that the army awarded a 7.5-million-baht contract to the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) to examine the 757 detectors it had purchased, for about 10,000 baht per device. He lambasted the contract, saying that it simply wasn’t rational to spend that amount of mone…