Cop chastised over Premchai

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Cop chastised over Premchai

By The Nation

 

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A POLICE captain in Kanchanaburi’s Thong Paphum district has been put on probation for alleged malfeasance after he received a complaint against construction tycoon Premchai Karntasuta for cruelty against animals.
 

Pol Captain Sumit Boonyanit failed to examine the Cruelty to Animals Act concerning the alleged wrongdoing by Premchai, according to an order signed by Pol Colonel Wutthipong Yenjit, a Thong Paphum commander on Tuesday.

 

The order stated that on February 7, Narongchai Sangworawongsa, chief of the Kanchanaburi Animal Quarantine station, sought legal action against Premchai, president of the Italian-Thai Development firm, for cruelty against animals.

 

Premchai, who is now free on bail, is facing nine charges relating to poaching in Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi. The butchered remains of protected animals, including a black leopard, were found at his campsite.

 

The order said Sumit had received the complaint without checking the content of the law, only for Narongchai to revisit the station on February 21 to withdraw the complaints.

 

Narongchai said he had already reviewed the relevant legislation and found that the definition of animals did not include wildlife.

 

As a result, Sumit committed an error in the course of his duty, according to the order. Sumit can appeal to his superiors within 30 days. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30339967

 

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[champers]

What is the likeliehood of this guy getting a harsher punishment than Premchai and his cohorts combined? Pretty high, I would say.

[Hayduke]

Silly captain…you can’t accept complaints against the rich and shameless without prior approval from the ‘higher ups’.

 

You could have interfered with the carefully planned extortion process.

 

Let this be a lesson to you

[colinneil]

What a load of b+++Ocks.

Just another case of senior police trying to protect hi-so folk, in the hope that Premchai slips him a few million.

[madmitch]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Narongchai said he had already reviewed the relevant legislation and found that the definition of animals did not include wildlife.

 

Ridiculous!

 

Thai laws really do seem to be written to be deliberately vague. I don't know if this is due to the Thai language itself but I'd be more inclined to believe the reasons being:

 

1. To protect influential persons

2. To make it easier to convict those without influence or power

3. To facilitate corruption.

 

[stanleycoin]

Seen it all before, just a little sideshow.

That's the way to do it. 

 

[anon467848]

The Thais are masters at "deflection". He's only a captain, easy scapegoat, as he won't be that well connected...

[RichardColeman]

Be so funny if this guy has lent his watch to the government watch collector !

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

the definition of animals did not include wildlife

absolutely understandable in a justice system that defines a bulletproof vest as a weapon