Complaint to be filed over Bt30m lottery payout

By Suphot Kaewkasi 
The Nation

 

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A Kanchanaburi-based retired policeman at the centre of a scandal over a Bt30-million lottery payout will on Monday get his lawyer to file a police complaint against a teacher who claimed to have bought and lost the winning tickets and tried to claim a share.

Lawyer Sittra Biabangkerd said on Sunday that he and ex-Pol Captain Charoon Wimul would lodge a complaint against teacher Preecha Kraikruan on an initial charge of twice asking police to make a record based on false information last month. 

 

Sittra said they would also file a complaint against the female lottery vendor identified only as Rattanaporn for selling overpriced lottery tickets. 

 

In addition, they would request an inquiry into whether her suppliers had sold her overpriced tickets, an offence which could lead to them being prohibited by the Government Lottery Office (GLO) to sell lottery tickets again, Sittra said. 

 

Rattanaporn has been cited as Preecha's witness. Preecha claimed the woman had the first-prize ticket stubs to back his claim.

 

Sittra said Charoon’s family was not in hurry to use the remaining Bt20 million that had been frozen in a bank account by order of the police.

 

Sittra said he and his team from the People Lawyers’ Team Foundation had been entrusted by Charoon to ensure justice was done so he did not plan to have the order cancelled to free up the cash.

 

Police have been investigating who is the rightful owner of the winning tickets since Preecha publicly announced they were his and filed a complaint against Charoon last week, despite Charoon having already claimed the winnings from the GLO.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30333620

 

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I still don’t see how the ex bib managed to steal the winning ticket. 

 

I don’t like his actions here in going after the ticket seller (witness intimidation via legal action), but can someone explain how he got hold of the ticket if he didn’t buy it? 

Envy, seems to be the corrupt entity in this perticular case.

20 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

I still don’t see how the ex bib managed to steal the winning ticket. 

 

I don’t like his actions here in going after the ticket seller (witness intimidation via legal action), but can someone explain how he got hold of the ticket if he didn’t buy it? 

Maybe he found it, after all the lady said she had lost it.

 

Not sure what the law on "theft by finding" is in Thailand, but holding the ticket stubs (as the seller seems to have) would be a good indication that she sold the tickets. But to whom was the ticket sold? Teacher or ex-cop?

 

As Bluespunk mentioned, the ex cop pushing to charge the ticket seller is not going to look good, it will only look as being vindictive in most peoples eyes.

The ticket seller has the stub,  she says she sold it to the teacher,  so did the teacher drop the ticket and the ex cop picked it up   ?    if this is the case then I would expect it ' finders keepers ' 

The seller having the stub does not hold any value to either the ex cop or the teacher as once it's left her possession she is no longer the owner of that ticket,  so even though the teacher bought the ticket ...  he didn't have it to verify he is the winner.

Either way haff the proceeds should go to charity.

An ex-cop and a Thai lawyer?  Seems perfectly legitimate to me.

When you win mega buck in this country, there will be always someone,

somebody that will come out from the left field and put a dodgy claim

to it, nothing to lose, they recon if they make enough noise the winner

will just pay them off out of the many millions he/she won....

Did they ask the ex cop where he bought ( or found ) the ticket ?  .......Too late now as he knows where the ticket was sold