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The only time you hear the name Chalerm post coup is when Akeyuth's names is involved. This is the third time since the 22nd of May there has been an article on Akeyuth while Chalerm is still in custody by the Junta.

Of course there is more holes in this case than swiss cheese. The policeman that oversaw the Akeyuth case was also acquitted of the disappearance of Somchai Neelapaijit in 2004 under thaksin. Chalerm addressed the media and told them the quint story of robbery by the driver before there was even any evidence to suggest it. The list goes on longer than a Shinawatra charge sheet, but they got the desired result. No new evidence to report the case and Akeyuth can not name names in the Four Seasons meeting and is silenced on the yingluck "Maldives holiday" at tax payers expense.

It was not the first critic of the Shinawatra's that was silenced, but thanks to the junta hopefully it will be the last.

Where are you Chalerm?

According to Amnesty International there are 18, yes eighteen cases, of Thaksin's political opponents being assassinated or having disappeared.

It's a measure of Thaksin's bell-ringing arrogance that he didn't even care that some of the victims were high profile people with the media spotlight on them for exactly the reason that they would be assassinated for crossing Thaksin. I'm thinking here about shipping moo, everybody was watching what would happen when he testified against Thaksin. But, of course he was murdered before he had the chance. What a massive surprise.

We're not surprised to learn that you don't like democracy. What do you suggest as a better form of government?

Well, the junta is doing a cracking job, don't you agree? More progress has been made in the last month than the last 3 years(admittedly the last 3 yrs we were regressing to a pure kleptocracy/mafia state). Once the shock and distress of losing the Shin's wears off I'm sure you will be singing the good generals praises.

Wellknown ex-model Yooyee jailed 15 years for cocaine possession

BANGKOK: -- Former model Yooyee was today (Thursday) sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and fined 1.5 million baht by the Criminal Court after she was fund guilty of illegal possession of illicit drugs for attempting to smuggle a small amount of cocaine into the country.

The ex-model, 40-year old Mrs Chatchaya Questa Ramos or Yooyee as she was wellknown in modeling circle, was arrested at Don Meuang airport’s arrival lounge as she checked in to enter the country. A search of her baggage unveiled 251 milligrammes of cocaine which was listed as Category 2 narcotic drug.

During the trial, Yooyee defended that the drug was meant for self consumption and not for sale. However, the court rejected her defence but still found her testimony beneficial.

The court first handed down a 20-year jailterm and a two-million baht fine on her but commuted the sentence to 15 years and 1.5 million baht fine due to her useful testimony.

Since Yooyee was given a three-month suspended jailterm for illegal possessing endangered species, the court added another three months on her 15 years imprisonment.

(photo : file photo from YouTube)

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/wellknown-ex-model-yooyee-jailed-15-years-cocaine-possession/

-- Thai PBS 2014-06-12

Seems a bit over the top but a silly risk. What was the endangered species?

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What was the endangered species?

A red shirt?

Not strictly endangered, but definitely on the "threatened" list.

fab4, you and ginjag have hijacked the thread - that's what nicky is complaining about. Me, too. Stop bickering, you silly little children.Stick to what you're both quite good at - throwing in food for thought.

Do you have any thoughts on why this extension on reporting assets was arranged supposedly to be beneficial to "Thaksin aligned" Senators? Is it possible there may be another way of looking at this which would not be regarded as rabid red propaganda by the obsessives on here?

Stands to reason that if you need time to cover up and forge documents to conceal illicit income, that having more time to prepare documents will be a big help.

I have it in mind of a somewhat rotund wife of a former champion of the poor, that forged paperwork relating to one of her trials but called herself Khunying , although at the time the deal took place she had not been made a Khunying yet. No doubt you remember the case.

I guess she isn't rich enough to get out of this particular pickle.

There must have been other options, surely she could have used her imagination. I would give my eye teeth to have been the prosecutor, we could have come to a very quick little deal.

15 yrs for 250 milligrams of personal devils dandruff??? What the heck do they do to those caught trafficking millions of yabaa pills?

What could possibly go wrong with a conduit like Nalinee running the show?

Women Empowerment Fund

7.7 Billion Baht

Scheme run by PM's Office Minister Nalinee Taveesin AKA "Crony" of African Strongman Mugabe

http://www.icij.org/offshore/mugabe-crony-among-thai-names-secret-offshore-files

One of the more disgraceful acts of the Shin regime. Cozying up to big Bob Mugabe(and other African dictators), and getting into trouble with the USA for assisting the mugabe's money laundering. I'm surprised. You would not expect a democratic govt that champions justice, no double standards and the lives of the poor to act in such a way as to perpetuate untold suffering of the poor Zimbabweans. Unless of course......

Does anybody know what has become of this Thaksin propagandist since the post coup clampdown? Talk about having backed the wrong horse!!

Obviously the Thaksin aligned senators are yet to find ways to hide all the money they took in backhanders for loyalty to the Shin Clan.

What was the last speaker's wealth increase again???

Oh yes.... it went from 1 house, 1 car, 1 tractor and 1.2 million baht........ and jumped to something like 250 million baht all within 2 years.

And that's not to even mention the secretive offshore accounts, that we absolutely know that the amart rouge use. Remember ample rich, win-mark etc etc.

Remember Moo Ham. Ran over someone at a bus stop in Sukhumvit in a fit of anger and got off after it was revealed he was 'special'. How did he get a license in the first place?

Suzuki GSX-R1000 L3 182 hp in-line 4 Superbike

The official reasoning from the court in that case was that he had had a seizure and thus was not responsible for his actions.

This may have been where the people who concocted the story to cover up this one got their ideas from.

People here are missing the point. Once you obtain high position in the public sector here, you are pretty much immune from prosecution. That is the system. The military enjoys the benefits of this too and is not about to change it. That is the system. This is not Kansas, etc........

Moo Ham was a bit of a special case. After he killed a few people running his mercedes into a crowd at the bus stop and was out on bail, he attacked another bus by throwing a rock through the window in another fit of petulance. Lucky his family were aligned with a political party or he would have been in a spot of bother.

Well, I stand corrected and disappointed

Maybe I'm just old (fashioned) but I do recall the BBC in better days when they DID try to achieve objectivity and give at least some air time to opposing views.

My information is not as parochial as you may think

I mix socially with all types here in Phuket and run a consultancy business (electrical engineering)

I also socialise in Bangkok (The British Club etc)

My wife's family are from Nakhon Phanon Province and we visit the wider family there frequently.

My son is married to woman from Buri Ram (who graduated from a top BKK university)

So, I think my sources are pretty eclectic

The Economist is also surprisingly weak on Thailand

I also think Aljazeera is pretty good.

All I'm asking for is some balance here.

Personally, I find JH way too shallow and simplistic. A bit too second rate university I imagine. A bit daily Mail if you like.

Sadly, that's the BBC these days. It may have been a bit too "Oxbridge" elitist in the past but frankly I preferred those Halcyon days.

Let's have some real analysis here

Well I'm going to throw my two pennyworth in here. I not only went to the same university as Jonathan Head, though not the same college, but also the same school. My own view about my fellow Old Alleynian is that he still has an axe to grind where Thailand in concerned and it has a tendency to show in some of his asides.

Then you will be interested to know that another Dulwich and Cambridge man told me a few years ago when I met him at an Ox and Cam dinner that Jonathan Head was one of the finest foreign journalists working in Thailand.He was fulsome in his praise and I am inclined to take his word rather than the criticism of various expatriates of unknown origin.My informant's name? Anand Panyarachun.

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People say the strangest thing to staff at dinner functions. It's often a combination of too much to drink and being in an exuberant mood. I wouldn't read too much into it mate.

If it was his first seizure, and he didnt realize he had epilepsy then it was a tragic accident. If he knew he was driving with a real risk of seizure then it was manslaughter or worse, and they should throw the book at him.

By "throwing the book at him", I hope you mean a life sentence of hard labour with no chance of parole or appeal. And here, life MEANS life.

I had in mind a more medieval punishment involving 4 horses, a disembowling blade, and a length of hemp rope. And the dead kiddies mums and dads to giddy-up the nags.

Those small black plastic boxes which did nothing, and cost around 1 million baht each. Ah yes. You and I knew early on they were a worthless scam, but several Thai administration along with a slew of gov't, police and military brass either didn't know they were bogus or WENT AHEAD AND BOUGHT THEM ANYWAY.

Even if they functioned, what would be their value? More than a laptop computer, at Bt. 9,000 each?

The plastic box fiasco is symptomatic of how gov't and military do business. Yingluck's gov't went and spent Bt.572,000 each for clocks. How much would you or I spend on a clock to hang on a wall? Perhaps Bt.1,200.

Government expenditures are too important to be left to gov't or military. They only know how to spend waaaaay too much, and their choices of projects/equipment is suspect. But then again, who can be trusted to spend big money wisely? In a Thai perspective, I honestly cannot answer that. Mr. Korn (Abhisit's Finance Minister) is smart, but he's not even being considered for a decision-making role now.

Not in any way a justification but let's just quash your ridiculous claim of the government buying clocks at 572,000 baht each. Complete nonsense, the clocks were bought by the office of the secretary general of parliament for a still stupidly high price of 62,500 baht each which includes a satellite link.

Wrong, again.

Yinglucks govt spent 15 million baht buying 240 clocks.

15,000,000 / 240 = 625,000B per clock.

Total crooks that deserve every second of their post coup trauma.

I just love the way ginjag likes any post that that supposedly counteracts one of my posts, whether he has checked to see if it's correct or not. I'm suprised djjamie's not got on the bandwaggon too - maybe he can perform simple arithmetic.

So, jaidam, ginjag would you like to get out your calculators and then come back and apologise....................

I doubt it.

I apologise for my 1st factually incorrect post.

I congratulate you on your 1st factually correct post. Well done.

My dear chap, what about the 'name calling' you accused me of? Did you already manage to find it in my reply?

BTW your question on laws twists things round a bit apart from being so vague as not to ask about the specific situation in Thailand. That suggests a.o. you might not be in Thailand at the moment.

PS did you read about the red-shirt 'catch-me-if-you-can' Sombat and how he was tracked by his IP address?

Did you read about the fact that he was found by accident?

Capture of Sombat was 'accidental'

The arrest of leading anti-coup campaigner Sombat Boonngam-anong on Thursday night was accidental and came from a joint police-military raid on a house in Chon Buri suspected of operating a website insulting the monarchy and inciting violence.

Other sources said yesterday that Sombat's arrest came after authorities tracked suspected Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, but they did not clarify whether he was the intended target.

"We have a team who tracked him through the Internet," Army spokeswoman Sirichan Ngathong was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse.

Earlier news reports quoted an adviser to Police Maj General Pisit Pao-in, permanent secretary of Information, Communications and Technology, as saying that the NIA had played a part in arresting Sombat by tracing his IP address. But NIA director Suwaphan Tanyuvardhana yesterday denied the agency was involved.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/732331-capture-of-sombat-was-accidental/#entry7938575

Little snippet from the other rag says that Sombat "has been held in military custody since, attending classes to "fine-tune" his attitude."

Absolutely Priceless! I'll bet he left thanking the kind generals for their help in adjusting his warped thinking. Prayuth is well on his well to sainthood.