Police summon teacher in lotto case over cop’s alleged crimes

By THE NATION

 

Patcharida Promta (L) amd Rattanaporn Supathip (R)

 

COUNTER CORRUPTION police have summoned three people to acknowledge charges of supporting an officer’s dereliction of duty concerning a Bt30-million lottery scandal.

 

Pol Maj-General Kamon Rienracha, chief of the Counter Corruption Division, identified the three as Preecha Kraikruan, a claimant of the winning prize, and lottery vendors Rattanaporn Supathip and Patcharida Promta.

 

Preecha, a teacher who claimed he had lost the winning tickets, which were allegedly picked up by a retired police officer, Charoon Pramuan, was summoned to meet police on Thursday morning. Rattanaporn is due to report on Thursday afternoon and Patcharida on Friday morning. 

 

The three are accused of supporting Pol Maj-General Suthi Puangpikul, a provincial police chief in Kanchanaburi, who allegedly changed the contents of investigation reports to support Preecha’s claim that the tickets in question were his.

 

The three allegedly certified the investigation reports reviewed and changed by Suthi, meaning that they abetted Suthi’s offences.

 

Kamon said the three suspects had not yet acknowledged that they would meet police.

 

Suthi was recently transferred to police headquarters in Bangkok pending investigations into allegations that he changed the contents of his reports.

 

Last week, the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), which took over the probe from Suthi’s office, said he would be charged with dereliction of duty over the matter.

 

The CIB said Suthi had believed Preecha was the real owner of the tickets so he performed his job in a way to support that belief. 

 

If charged in connection to the case, it would be the second charge Preecha and Rattanaporn will face after they were arrested for filing false reports against Charoon last week.

 

In the fight over the ownership of the tickets, Preecha filed a complaint against Charoon for embezzlement and receipt of stolen items, while Charoon accused Preecha of filing false information against him.

 

The arrests of Preecha and Rattanaporn appeared to indicate that investigators believed the tickets belong to Charoon.

 

Meanwhile, Pol Maj-General Charn Wimonsri, deputy CIB commissioner, said Thanukorn Luangmai-iam, a bank driver, would also be summoned to meet police on Thursday to face charges of giving false information.

 

Thanukorn told Kanchanaburi police that he had seen Charoon pick up the winning tickets, apparently to support Preecha’s claim. 

 

However, when the CIB took over the case, he reversed his statement, saying he could not be sure that Charoon had picked them up.

 

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Seems to be an awful lot of man hours and, presumably, money being expended on this case !!

There must be more important things to concentrate on ?? Toad boy and the massive watch collection for one :)

30 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

Seems to be an awful lot of man hours and, presumably, money being expended on this case !!

There must be more important things to concentrate on ?? Toad boy and the massive watch collection for one :)

Yes.

It's all about money,  so loads of time can be used.

Remember , Money Number One . 

Also,  Grassing  each other up ,  is the number two past time. 

Just stop with that whole lottery, it takes too much time for the government to control it.....and budhist don't need to gamble..

One could be forgiven for thinking that the total prize money is slowly but surely being transferred from the ex-cop to the current cops. It may well therefor be a pyrrhic victory for the ex-cop who will win the case but lose the money. 

there seems to be an awful lot of accusations of lies being told by witnesses for the teacher and also against him and yet the cop who doesn't seem to have any witnesses is deemed to be telling the truth 

 

 

41 minutes ago, smedly said:

there seems to be an awful lot of accusations of lies being told by witnesses for the teacher and also against him and yet the cop who doesn't seem to have any witnesses is deemed to be telling the truth 

 

 

The witnessless cop, has the money.... surely that’s enough