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From his arrest in December...
Australian Andrew Hood, 36, arrives at Bangkok's Criminal Court December 19, 2008. Hood was arrested at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi international airport on Wednesday with 3 kilograms (about 7 pounds) of heroin strapped to his body.
REUTERS / 2008-12-19
To his court appearance in August.... it looks like the intervening 8 months have already taken a toll...
Australian Andrew Hood arrives at Criminal Court Wednesday before being sentenced to death sentence for having in possession 2.4 kg of heroin. His penalty was commuted to life imprisonment.
The Nation / 2009-08-05
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I think you said it better in your other thread:
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Doubts-Faran...in-t286185.html
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Police Chief Hopes to Stay in Office Further
The National Police Chief is scheduled to testify with the anti-graft panel over his alleged malfeasance stemming from the violent crackdown on the People's Alliance for Democracy protesters after he returns from his trip to China. He believes he will not be removed from his post.
Prior to flying to China this morning, national police chief Police General Patcharawat Wongsuwan said his 10-day visit is aimed at strengthening the relationship between the two countries and raising the issue of international crime, particularly the narcotics problem.
Patcharawat said he has instructed his interim replacement, Police General Wichein Podposri , to uphold unity in the police agency and follow the polices that are in place.
Patcharawat insisted that at the recent meeting of the Police Commission, it did not consider transfers of 152 police generals but did look into reassignments as required by the restructuring plan.
He expressed confidence that he will not be dismissed as police chief when he returns from China but admitted that an appointment of his acting successor by the Prime Minister is lawful.
The police chief gave assurance that his absence will cause no problems at the Police Commission's meeting and expected that no politicians will meddle in the reshuffle of high-ranking police officers. He said that he and his close aides are not involved in post-buying in the police force.
Patcharawat went on to say that after returning from China, he will testify with the National Anti-Corruption Commission over his alleged malfeasance stemming from the violent police crackdown on the People's Alliance for Democracy rally outside the Parliament House last October.
As for the investigation into the attempt on the life of the People's Alliance for Democracy core leader Sondhi Limthomgkul, the embattled police chief said that deputy police chief Police General Thani Sombunsap is doing his utmost and insisted that his presence or absence has no bearing on the case.
He also said he has never been concerned about a group of people who aim at undermining his position in the police agency.
-- Tan Network 2009-08-05
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Justice Minister: new office not aimed at Thaksin
Justice Minister Peerapan Saleerathwiphak said the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Justice Ministry's proposal to set up the Legal Execution Office to ensure strict enforcement of the law and warrants issued for arrests of criminal suspects and convicts.
The minister said the new office will be attached to the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Justice. It will be responsible for ensuring enforcement of the law, promote efficiency of the justice process, and track down suspects wanted under arrest warrants both inside the country and abroad.
Mr Peerapan, however, said the new office is not intended particularly to bring fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to justice. Thaksin fled the country before the Supreme Court's criminal division for holders of political positions handed down a two-year jail sentence on him. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
There are now more than 260,000 suspects and convicts under arrest warrants who have not been caught, said Mr Peerapan, who
Continued here:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/15...imed-at-thaksin
-- Bangkok Post 2009-08-05
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Cabinet okays establishment of law enforcement office
The Cabinet Tuesday approved the establishment of a law enforcement office to hunt down some 260,000 fugitives under arrest warrants.
Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga said the law enforcement office would have 160 staff.
He said the office would be in charge of tracking down suspects who are under arrest warrants. He said 262,325 arrest warrants have not been fulfilled yet.
Pirapan said he would seek help from the US Justice Department to send officials form the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Marshals to help train officials of the law enforcement office.
-- The Nation 2009-08-05
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NACC to serve indictments to Police Chief by mail
National Police Chief General Patcharawat Wongsuwan will receive and acknowledge his serious disciplinary indictments related to the October 7 crackdown via registered postal service, National Anti-Corruption Commission member Wicha Mahakhun said Wednesday.
Patcharawat was a no-show at Wednesday's indictment session because of a conflicting engagement for a ten-day trip to China, Wicha said, arguing the NACC will rely on the postal service to serve the notification of charges in order to avoid undue delay.
-- The Nation 2009-08-05
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Is it in anyones best interest for us to continue this discussion?
I'd be in favor of closing the thread until corroboration of the situation is found... given the source is limited to an unnamed incarcerated prisoner's email.
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Westerners don´t think the same way as regular people
What was I thinking?
That's why all the prisons in Thailand are full of Westerners and no Asians - just the "irregular people" habitat the prison system. It also explains why the Western World really consist's of third world countries.
Appropriate to the above is the other similar case decided the same day as Mr. Hood....
Thai court jails Malaysian drug dealer for 30 years
BANGKOK, Aug 5 — A 40-year-old Malaysian has been sentenced to 30 years' jail and fined 500,000 baht for drug trafficking and overstaying in Thailand.
The Criminal Court, however, halved the sentence due to David Goh Chee Leong's confession.
The Bangkok Post reported that Goh was arrested on Jan 5 at a rented apartment in Bangkok's Laksi district with 2.58g of crystal meth (known as "ice"), 71.97g of ecstasy, 44.71g of ketamine, and 8.01g of nimetazepam, a party drug marketed under the name Erimin.
He also faces a related charge of possession with intent to supply.
The daily also said that another Malaysian, aged 31, was arrested on Monday with a Thai accomplice in the southern province of Satun for allegedly smuggling 2.88g of crystal meth.
A number of Malaysians had been arrested in Thailand over the past few months for smuggling in synthetic drugs, including a marketing manager with a foreign workers agency who was nabbed at a luxury condominium here and three others in Sungai Golok, Narathiwat.
- Bernama News (Malaysia) / 2009-08-05
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Wichien won't interfere in Sondhi case
Acting National Police Chief Wichien Pojphosri has insisted he will not interfere with the police investigation of the Sondhi shooting case. "I've told Deputy National Police Chief Thanee Somboonsap that I am ready to facilitate his work, but I will not get involved in the investigation, as he is capable and an expert in this area," Pol Gen Wichien said on Wednesday.
Pol Gen Wichien, who is acting Chief while Pol Gen Patcharawat Wongsuwon takes 10 days leave, said he had talked to the police chief before he left on a trip to China in the morning. "Pol Gen Patcharawat told me that he is happy that I'm covering for him," the acting police chief said.
He said Pol Gen Patcharawat would return to Thailand on Monday and report to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. "I'm just acting as the police chief for a few days," Pol Gen Wichien said. There will be a meeting of high-ranking police officials on Friday, he said.
Continued here:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/15...-in-sondhi-case
-- Bangkok Post 2009-08-05
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SRJ,
Do your own research.It's not as though you don't have the time.There's plenty of evidence out there to the effect that the government states it is just providing the public with the facts, including a similar comment directly from Abhisit.
Actually, it's your research since you are the one saying that the government is a "liar" about the issue.
If you have the time to post some unreported news then you should you be able to support that assertion.
I've shown through several posts that the government makes no attempt to hide their efforts to not set a precedent with this unprecedented and disrespectful petition.
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Thai government sure of controlling situation as Thaksin's group to submit pardon petition
BANGKOK, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The government will be able to control a potential conflict on August 17, when the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) will submit a pardon petition for Thaksin Shinawatra to the Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thuagsuban said Wednesday.
And, if necessary, the government will use the military to handle any probable chaos on that day, Thai News Agency quoted Suthep, who is in charge of security affairs, as saying.
The UDD group, or the red-shirted people, have claimed that they have already gathered at least 5 million names of the Thai people -- the supporters of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin, which will be used to support the pardon petition.
But, under the law, criminals can only petition for the royal amnesty after they have served time for a certain period and expressed repentance, while Thaksin has not served any time in prison, or admitted to any wrongdoing.
Moreover, according to the law, only his family members can petition for the royal pardon.
The government will prevent any movement, which will affect the nation's main institution (the monarchy), Suthep said. Suthep said the origin of any potential problem, which might occur during the submission date, is the red-shirted people themselves.
Many sections in the Thai society are increasingly worried about the red-shirted people's plan to submit the pardon petition for Thaksin. However, Prime Minister's Office Minister Sathit Wongnongtoey said the government would attempt to manage to avoid any probable conflict among the different groups in the Thai society.
The government will provide channels for the people with the different views to express their voice regarding this matter, he added.
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Wow, the lies some people spout...
Lie big enough and people will believe it - or atleast that the truth is atleast at the 50% mark (giving them with this latest fantasy number added in) a 5 million man count - which is in itself just pure fantasy.
Besides Jatuporn, Thaksin's other favorite liar, Noppadope, has his say...
I think if one is looking at blatant lies in this pardon scenario one would have to include the government's assertion that it isn't trying to obstruct the pardon (which is of course in a long and normally accepted tradition) but simply trying to present the public with the facts.By any standards that is a big fat porkie.
What lies by the government are you referring to? Where did you get the notion that the government is not behind the movement to stop the inappropriate petition? In all the news I've seen, they've freely admitted their efforts to try stop this improper act.... eg.
Democrat vows to oppose all bids to seek amnesty for ThaksinDo you have news that you can post that corroborates what you say the government is doing?
Also, do you have any corroboration of your assertion that a petition attempt by someone who has not served a day in prison on their conviction is a "long and normally accepted tradition"? (such as something that contradicts what the below post reiterates)
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The rat hunt is part of the municipality’s campaign against rodent-borne diseases.
Yee Hah!!... a Rat Round-up... git yo' self a gun and join in...
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Chiang Mai kills rats to prevent pneumonic plague
CHIANG MAI, 5 August 2009 (NNT) – The Chiang Mai Municipality buys rats from vendors in a bid to reduce risks of contracting pneumonic plague currently spreading in China.
Vendors at the Muang Mai fresh market in the northern province of Chiang Mai hunt rats at night and then sell them to the municipality at the price of 5 baht each.
The person who kills rats the most will get a reward of 1,000 baht with 500 baht for the first runner-up, according to the local media.
The rat hunt is part of the municipality’s campaign against rodent-borne diseases.
The municipality said it would expand the campaign to other fresh markets if it was successful.
-- NNT 2009-08-05
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Puea Thai complaint against Charavat
Puea Thai Party Spokesman Prompong Nopparait filed a complaint with the National Anti-Corruption Commission late on Wednesday morning against Interior Minister Chavarat Charnveerkul.
Prompong said the opposition party believed the minister abused his authority in ordering provincial governors and district chiefs nationwide to arrange tables for people who had signed the petition for a Royal Pardon for Thaksin Shinawatra to withdraw their names.
Continued here:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/15...terior-minister
-- Bangkok Post 2009-08-05
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UPDATE
Aussie awaits drugs verdict in Bangkok
The verdict was expected to be handed down on August 5.
So the sentence was death reduced to 50 years?Any chance for him to get out before that?
He hasn't been sentenced yet, the 50 years is conjecture at this point.
If that is what he is sentenced to, it's possible, but certainly not definite, that he may be released before the expiration of the 50 years.
UPDATE
To complete this thread... he's been sentenced to life in prison, which is covered in the new thread:
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Australian-J...nd-t286131.html
Australian Jailed For Life In Thailand
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Red-shirt Group Insists on Filing Pardon Petition on August 17
Red-shirt supporters have vowed to file a pardon petition for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on August 17.
They claim to have collected ten million signatures already.
Pheu Thai Party member of Parliament and key red-shirt leader Jatupon Prompan insisted the pro-Thaksin movement would go ahead with the petition for a Royal Pardon for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on August 17.
He added that some ten million people have joined the signature campaign.
He believes the reason for the high number is that Interior Minister Chaowarat Chanweerakun launched an anti-signature campaign, driving more red-shirt members to sign.
Jatuporn stated that a coup is unlikely to be triggered by the campaign for the pardon for Thaksin as claimed by a former Supreme Commander General Boonsang Niampradit, because red-shirt members only exercise their rights under the Constitution and are not trying to spur a coup.
-- Tan Network 2009-08-05
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Noppadon:Thaksin not hiding 1.8 billion baht
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has not laundered 1.8 billion baht through an island tax haven as alleged by privy councilor Gen Phichit Kulwanich, the fugitive former premier's legal aide Noppadon Pattama said on Wednesday. Noppadon challenged Gen Phichit to submit evidence supporting the money laundering allegation to the Department of Special Investigation for legal action.
The former foreign minister said Thaksin is now running a diamond mine and television businesses overseas.
Thaksin’s 100 television channels project for Thailand would start test broadcasts on Sept 1. Noppadon reiterated that Thaksin and members of the Shinawatra family were not behind the red-shirts' petition for Royal Pardon.
Continued here:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/15...-8-billion-baht
-- Bangkok Post 2009-08-05
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In a related development, Jatuporn Promphan, one of the red-shirt leaders, said yesterday that more people had joined the petition drive after it was closed last Friday and that now "some 10 million people" had put their names down.
Wow, the lies some people spout...
Lie big enough and people will believe it - or atleast that the truth is atleast at the 50% mark (giving them with this latest fantasy number added in) a 5 million man count - which is in itself just pure fantasy.
Besides Jatuporn, Thaksin's other favorite liar, Noppadope, has his say...
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Than you must have been imprisoned in a private hospital in Nonthaburi, because that is where Prince Hohenlohe (not Lichtenstein) died. He was also not refused medicine for diabetes, because even neither he himself nor his family knew that he had diabetes. Only tests in the prison hospital confirmed diabetes, and he was straight away transferred to a nearby private hospital.
But let truth not spoil a good story.
Wrong!!!!!
He was in building 1 of Bangkok Remand Prison.
This is around late July or early August 2007.
He was never taken any further than the prison clinic not even to the next door Prison Hospital.
I know because I helped carry him there.
He told us he was waiting for medicine to be brought in.
And I was still there a few days later when the Swiss Embassy came for an inspection of the building after the tragic incident.
They moved most of the prisoners out of the building that day to show the prison wasn't so overcrowded.
The truth is sad enough !!!!!!!!!
Once again, Colpyat/justanothercybertosser is shown to be wrong as he was the same "wrong" in the other thread, too.
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Discovery of the victim's body
August 18, 2008
From article (in Thai) by Kachon News
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Additional background information from:
Kyodo News Agency / Aug. 26, 2008
Thai experts ID body as missing Japanese trader
BANGKOK (Kyodo) Thai forensic experts confirmed Monday that a naked body found earlier this month in a national park in northeast Thailand is that of Takahide Tanahashi, 33, an online trader who disappeared from his Bangkok apartment Aug. 5.
Police Maj. Gen. Somyod Dimak, spokesman at Police General Hospital, said the confirmation was made using both Tanahashi's dental records and pairing DNA data with that of Tanahashi's brother, Shinji.
The cause of death was stated only as "lack of oxygen." The body, found Aug. 9, was too decomposed for further determination of how he died, the spokesman said, noting: "No external wounds were found. No fracture of bones. No poisonous substance found in the stomach. Most of the internal organs were decayed. It is estimated that he had been dead since Aug. 5."
Last week, a Thai court approved an arrest warrant for two men, from Aichi and Osaka prefectures, on suspicion of murdering Tanahashi.
In Japan, investigative sources said the Aichi man has admitted withdrawing ¥10 million from Tanahashi's bank account in Japan.
After returning home Aug. 6, the Aichi man told Japanese police that he withdrew the money in Nagoya on several occasions and handed it to the Osaka man, who also returned to Japan this month.
The Osaka man has denied having anything to do with Tanahashi's disappearance and death, according to the sources.
Tanahashi authored the book "Soto Komorino Susume," which roughly translates as "An Introduction to Hiding Overseas." The book discusses how people can engage in longtime stays abroad by living on their returns from Internet trading on stock and foreign-exchange markets.
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Fresh warrants served on pair over murder in Thailand
GIFU [Japan] — Police served fresh arrest warrants on two men Tuesday on suspicion of killing a man in Thailand last year.
They are Takeshi Uragami, 31, and Hirotoshi Mori, 31, both of whom were earlier arrested for allegedly withdrawing money from the bank account of the victim—Takahide Tanahashi, 33, whose body was found in Thailand in August 2008.
Uragami has been indicted on charges of theft, while Mori has already been convicted of theft and has filed an appeal with a higher court.
Uragami and Mori confined Tanahashi in a Bangkok apartment, stole his personal computer and cash cards, and killed him in the bathroom of the apartment on Aug 5, 2008, the police said.
Tanahashi’s body was found in a mountainous area in Thailand on August 6 that year.
Thai police obtained arrest warrants for Uragami and Mori on suspicion of killing Tanahashi, but were unable to arrest the pair because they had returned to Japan.
- Kyodo News Agency (Japan) / 2009-08-05
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Court dismisses suit against police investigating Sondhi case
BANGKOK, Aug 4 (TNA) - Thailand's Criminal Court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against the chief of the police investigation team and another investigator lodged by a non-commissioned army officer wanted in connection with the attempted murder of People's Alliance for Democracy key leader Sondhi Limthongkul in April.
A lawyer representing Sgt-Maj 1st Class Panya Srirao on Monday filed the suit against Deputy National Police Chief Pol Gen Thani Somboonsap, a chief investigator of Sondhi case, and Pol Col Vicharnwat Bhodirakkul, an investigator, for malfeasance.
The two senior police officers were accused of filing false charges against Sgt-Maj Panya resulting in him being issued an arrest warrant and being dismissed from military service.
The court however dismissed the plaintiff’s suit, reasoning that the two investigators have full authority to carry out an investigation and collect all possible evidence to find a culprit and to prove their guilt or innocence.
The court said, according to collected evidence, the plaintiff was a suspect in the attempted killing of Mr Sondhi, the investigators therefore asked the court to issue arrest warrants for the suspect and the court then approved their request.
The two defendants have carried out their duties under the law, the court said, adding that the investigators have done nothing wrong as accused by the plaintiff. So the court dismissed the case.
The court earlier issued an arrest warrant against Sgt-Maj Panya, a non-com from the Army’s Special Warfare Command in Lop Buri, and Pol Cpl Worawut Mungsanthi, assigned to the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) for involvement in the killing attempt of key leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) Sondhi on April 17.
The two suspects however are still at large and refused to surrender to police, citing fears for their safety and projected unfair treatment while in police custody.
-- TNA 2009-08-04
Cabinet Approves Establishment Of New Law Enforcement Office
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Here's a couple of the wanted 262,325 fugitives....
Former Mayor of Bang Saen convicted of first degree murder (among other charges) and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Became a fugitive when he was released on bail AFTER his conviction...
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Sinking-Lowe...31.html&hl=
Sinking Lower The Lowest, Pattaya City News Breaks Record
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Former Deputy Interior Minister Vatana Asavahame sentenced to 10 years in prison for bribery. Also became a fugitive when he was released on bail and filed an appeal on his conviction while on the run...
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Irregulariti...52.html&st=