Premchai to be charged for possession of illegal guns

By The Nation

 

 

THE EMBATTLED president of giant construction firm Italian-Thai Development (ITD), who has been slapped with nine charges for alleged poaching, will face an additional charge for possession of illegal guns after six of the 43 guns seized from his house were allegedly illegal.

 

Deputy national police chief Pol General Srivara Rangsibhramanakul yesterday said he had instructed Kanchanaburi police to file complaints with the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Division police over the illegal guns.

 

 

He said the police in Thong Pha Phum district had been told to file the complaint by yesterday.

 

Premchai Karnasuta, president of ITD, a company listed on the stock exchange, was arrested with three other suspects early this month and charged with nine counts of poaching in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province.

 

Forest rangers and police allegedly found remains of a protected black leopard, pheasant and barking deer as well as hunting rifles from his campsite at a prohibited location. The investigation was expanded to his residence in Bangkok where 43 guns were found, six of them allegedly illegal.

 

Srivara said that police were gathering and testing evidence to back up the charges, including items seized from the campsite such as rifles and a vehicle and those found at his house, including two pairs of tusks. Srivara said the results of the tests on tusks would come out on March 10.

 

 

Forensics officials will look into mobile phones seized from Premchai and other suspects to scrutinise stored photos, as well as telephone numbers they had called before entering the World Heritage sanctuary.

 

Pol Maj-General Thawatchai Mekprasertsuk, forensics chief, said the leopard had eight traces of 20mm bullets. However, because the animal had already been butchered, the officers did not have any bullets to test.

 

Forensics officers found spent shells of 20mm bullets shot from a gun at the scene and Premchai’s DNA sample was allegedly found on the trigger.

 

Thawatchai said that the investigative reports were expected to be completed by March 24.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30339558

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-02-24

 

This is getting redicioules already, the man is facing much more serious charges that this

one and legal guns or not, by all accounts of the law, he should get a lengthy jail sentence

and a big fine or both, and not a moment too soon and just for shooting a poor animal

20 times....

 

the Rich and the Shamless....pathetic!!

9 minutes ago, mok199 said:

the Rich and the Shamless....pathetic!!

Freudian Slip?

42 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Premchai’s DNA sample was allegedly found on the trigger

 

Mummy always said, that nose-digging habit is going to get you into trouble one day, lad.

One of those guns looks like it dates from before there were any "laws" in Olde Siam?

 

What's next, he'll be charged with pooping in a national forest without a permit?

 

He could have been hunting live humans (Burmese, or even lower-class Thais) and he will never, ever be charged with a crime.

 

 

Any news on the dna testing of his feces found at the site???

 

lolllllzzzzzzzzz

 

So a charge of causing cruelty to animals is dropped in favour of possessing illegal guns?  I bet he's laughing his head off in Dubai.

1 hour ago, MaxYakov said:

Freudian Slip?

I bought my wife one for her birthday. It's very nice.

10 hours ago, rooster59 said:

to be charged

To be..... Doesn't mean it will happen. 

Maybe he's to join Thaksin and Yingluck very soon... 

20 mm casings.  Thats a canon. I think they mean 20 guage.