Growing pressure taking its toll on ‘tired’ Prawit

By The Nation

 

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said on Monday that he felt tired amid the mounting pressure on him to resign.

 

Prawit is facing an online campaign pressuring him to step down over off-hand comments he made about the death of a cadet, the remarks having grabbed national headlines.

 

The campaign founder is prominent figure Thicha Nanakorn, the long-serving director of the Ban Kanchanapisek Vocational Juvenile Training Centre for Boys, former charter drafter and ex-member of the National Reform Council.

 

Before the campaign was launched, the defence minister also landed himself in hot water due to his wearing of a controversial luxury watch and diamond ring, which he had not declared in his assets list to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) when taking office in 2014.

 

The anti-graft agency gave Prawit 30 days to explain how he had obtained a flamboyant Richard Mille wristwatch and diamond ring after the luxurious items raised widespread suspicion about the general’s “unusual wealth”.

 

It has been two weeks since the assets issue first hit the spotlight, but Prawit has remained silent on how he would explain his possession of the items to the NACC.

 

He said early on in the affair that he would submit a letter of explanation to the agency.

 

Local media reported, citing an aide of the deputy PM, that the watch had belonged to one of Prawit’s close friends who died earlier this year.

 

The aide said the pair had known each other for more than 60 years since their elementary-school days together.

 

The friend, who was a businessman and a watch lover, would always lend Prawit his watches and some were not returned, the aide is reported to have added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30334218

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-12-18

 

"The friend, who was a businessman and a watch lover, would always lend Prawit his watches and some were not returned, the aide is reported to have added"

 

How can that stand up, so they either stolen or a gift, A gift for what would be the question 

 

If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen.................................get out!

Poor Prawit. What's the world coming to when you can't make despicable comments about the death of another person or wear dead people's ostentatious watches without severe skepticism. I think the very fact the his friend is dead should mean people have to stop commenting. It's just not right. People should maybe be arrested for commenting as it's so sensitive now. 

Indeed. Constantly having to think out lies and half-truths to answer the press, hiding assets that are not supposed to exist, going on extravagant overseas trips paid for with tax money and trying to pull the wool over the public's ear with talk of "we are doing all of this only for you, the people" really must cost a lot of energy.

 

Get the poor man some strong coffee, quick!

Must be the weight of that huge diamond on his pinky finger,

 

 

regards Worgeordie

They may be able to work their way up the ladder in the military, but they are not politicians. They give orders not take them. He needs to toughen up and not act like a sissy boy. 

He said early on in the affair that he would submit a letter of explanation to the agency.

He was on the way to post it but a stray dog attacked him and ate the envelope. He will re-post the excuse as soon as he remembers the original, or he can create something better. In the mean time he will donate the watches to a charity in Switzerland through his numbered account, honest he will.

Everyone is cruel to him! His friend died and he just thought: "he's dead anyway! Why not keep the watches rather than give them back to the familly?" 

The stress is getting to him and he is not seeing clearly.

I offer some help.  Name the friend.  There may be records of the purchase and insurance evidence.  Return the watches to the estate of the friend so the value can be honestly shared according to the will.

Or stop lying to the country you claim to serve, resign and apologise.

A life of corruption can take its toll.

This man doesn't need a watch, he needs a nose hat - I don't want to see inside his flared nostrils anymore.

Hauling good quality bling around all day would make me tired too.

Who needs to watch the soap operas, this clown gives me all the entertainment I need for the week. Can’t wait for the next episode of “how I can stuff up and get away with it”

Another glorious caption...! Offer him the Mugabe deal, but make him go, now, otherwise you Mr PM General Prayuth and all your aeropage of Generals green and brown will lose the tiny bit of credibility you might(?) still have, and one day you might wake up with that immunity you gave to yourselves wiped away by millions of angry people, and no place to run...

2 hours ago, candide said:

Everyone is cruel to him! His friend died and he just thought: "he's dead anyway! Why not keep the watches rather than give them back to the familly?" 

ahhhh.... the thainess of it all . how can he or his big brother expect any good to come from their actions , a liar or thief is a liar or thief by any other name .

Easy enough to look into the friends past purchases and likelihood of this story being true...but then again there will be a lot of smoke and mirrors. The Toad is hopping! Keep a flame to his butt and help Thailand rid itself of another dishonest politician.

Whiff of exit stage left about it .. Pressure is building , feeling tired , could a Doc's sick note excusing him from duty be next before being quietly side-lined on " Ill health " grounds .? Classic way out is it not .. If so he may even get to hang onto those borrowed watches .. 

Edited December 18, 20178 yr by Justgrazing
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In another thread it was mentioned that he may be given additional time to explain each of the other luxury watches that he has been seen wearing. I think it's now four.

 

At this rate he just needs to wear a different watch every 29 days and he can easily see out the limitation of proceedings.

 

21 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Whiff of exit stage left about it .. Pressure is building , feeling tired , could a Doc's sick note excusing him from duty be next before being quietly side-lined on " Ill health " grounds .? Classic way out is it not .. If so he may even get to hang onto those borrowed watches .. 

I dunno... Big egos are in play here. What are a few luxury watches when you don't get to strut in front of cameras and pontificate to others? He - the lot of them - can buy whatever their hearts desire, but the intoxication of power, pure power without accountability must be immeasurable. 

My watches have serial numbers on them and though Swiss made neither of them are worth over 150,000 baht.

I am positive Rolex knows which jeweller sold the platinum Daytona chrono and I would expect there is a receipt for it's sale somewhere.  All it would take is Somchai from DSI to do a full mornings worth of work to figure out who owned the watch

"heavy is the head that bears the crown".. or something like that. Oh I wonder what his pension is or will be?  And do those things continue when there is another coup?  How have all the past "leaders" or members of a coup done after they themselves were replaced?

14 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Poor Prawit. What's the world coming to when you can't make despicable comments about the death of another person or wear dead people's ostentatious watches without severe skepticism. I think the very fact the his friend is dead should mean people have to stop commenting. It's just not right. People should maybe be arrested for commenting as it's so sensitive now. 

Makes you wonder how and why the 'dear' friend died.........or maybe we know why?

My friend gave it to me. 

Every politian or government official being investigated by the nacc take note !!

Wonder how many watches he has from his dead friends. 

8 hours ago, isaanbanhou said:

My watches have serial numbers on them and though Swiss made neither of them are worth over 150,000 baht.

I am positive Rolex knows which jeweller sold the platinum Daytona chrono and I would expect there is a receipt for it's sale somewhere.  All it would take is Somchai from DSI to do a full mornings worth of work to figure out who owned the watch

Unfortunately the receipts were buried with the owner so that he would not forget he lent the watch to his friend who kept them in the closet. 

Disclaimer. The above is absolutely untrue and a fiction of my imagination. ??

Standard Chinese political operating procedure.

 

When in the stronger position, exploit your advantage mercilessly.

When in the weaker position, appeal for sympathy.

2 hours ago, Bundooman said:

Makes you wonder how and why the 'dear' friend died.........or maybe we know why?

Died of never having existed in the first place?

17 hours ago, webfact said:

that he felt tired

your honor, i am innocent because i am tired

You will find Sympathy in the dictionary.............between s**t and syphilis.......