DPM Prawit bares all about the wristwatch controversy

[webfact]

DPM Prawit bares all about the wristwatch controversy

By Thai PBS

 

 

Breaking his long silence regarding the luxury wristwatch controversy, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan admitted for the first time Sunday that the wristwatches were lent to him by Mr Patthavart Suksriwong, a wealthy businessman who was his close former classmate at St Gabriel College, according to Post Today online.

 

Insisting on his innocence, he said he was not stupid who knew nothing about the legal requirement to declare his assets and liabilities with the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

 

He clarified that he didn’t declare the wristwatches his assets because they did not belong to him but were lent to him by Mr Patthavart whom he described as a very rich businessman with tens of billion of baht fortune and a wristwatch collector who had 200-300 timepieces in his collection.

 

Full story:  http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/dpm-prawit-bares-wristwatch-controversy/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-02

[JOC]

It took him 5 months to figure out a name, he could use as part of his never ending lies...

 

The OP made me think of a classic...

 

Q: How do you know Prawit lies?

A: His lips moves

[YetAnother]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

he said he was not stupid who knew nothing

the only things contradicting him are his words and his actions

[colinneil]

Well then fatty, have you given them back to his family?

[JOC]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

Insisting on his innocence, he said he was not stupid who knew nothing about the legal requirement to declare his assets and liabilities with the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

It should have read:    "Insisting on his impunity..................................................."

[Samui Bodoh]

What crap!

 

The simple fact is that men don't borrow jewelry like that, so I call BS.

 

Seriously, any guy out there borrow a watch from a friend so that you could look pretty? ANYONE? If a friend of mine asked to borrow a watch so that he could be 'bejeweled', I'd smack him in the face and say "don't be a chick!!!" Men do NOT borrow jewelry.

 

This is NOT credible.

 

Period.

[maxcorrigan]

That's it then, all explained satisfactorily no mystery at all, case closed! 

[Darcula]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

DPM Prawit bares all

 

I'm trying to erase that vision from my eyes.

[bubblegum]

Google his name and only 1 result, this article !!!

[JOC]

Tried to google the generous billionaire Patthavart Suksriwong.....

 

He doesn't exist....!!

 

You would think the a wealthy businessman would be somewhere on Google....But zero, zilch, nada...

So another lie?

 

 

[Lungstib]

All he has 'bared' is his contempt for the public and their opinion. A man with no shame.

[ezzra]

Why Oh why, a very rich man in his own right, borrows watches from

'a friend'? this man could by a dozen of these watches without

blinking one of his multiple bank accounts, so now he ends up

with an egg on his face to now be called the watch borrower,

assuming we believe this fibs of his....

[Crossy]

4 minutes ago, JOC said:

Tried to google the generous billionaire Patthavart Suksriwong.....

Yeah, tried it with the Thai name (pulled from a "watch" article in the Thai press).

 

Nothing other than other watch articles in my (admittedly quick) search.

 

And surely, since the gentleman has passed away the watches are part of his estate and should be returned to the family. Unless of course they were left to k. Prawit in his will (which will shortly appear methinks).

 

 

[Thian]

12 minutes ago, Samui Bodoh said:

What crap!

 

The simple fact is that men don't borrow jewelry like that, so I call BS.

 

Seriously, any guy out there borrow a watch from a friend so that you could look pretty? ANYONE? If a friend of mine asked to borrow a watch so that he could be 'bejeweled', I'd smack him in the face and say "don't be a chick!!!" Men do NOT borrow jewelry.

 

This is NOT credible.

 

Period.

And what if a man asks your wife to use her lipstick on his own weddingparty because he wants to look good on the pictures? Go tell the answer to my neighbour who is not gay.

[janclaes47]

Fat chance that porky is telling porkies.

[Thailand]

Thanks goodness the truth is out.

 

Some people may have thought he had been lying!

[AGareth2]

funny how this story is 1 day late

[janclaes47]

3 minutes ago, Crossy said:

And surely, since the gentleman has passed away the watches are part of his estate and should be returned to the family. Unless of course they were left to k. Prawit in his will (which will shortly appear methinks).

 

But that would make him the owner, and he would be obliged to declare them.

[rkidlad]

The deputy said at the beginning that this was, "easy to explain". That was after the first watch or maybe two. He then went quiet. He then had a hissy fit and said he'd quit if any wrongdoing was found or people wanted him to go.

 

Why did he not say this at the very beginning? "I have a rich friend who owns many watches. I would often borrow them from him. I can't recollect how many I borrowed but the pictures are there. His name is so-and-so and he is now dead. I can prove all of this but it will take a few days. I will make this my priority as we (the junta) often preach to people that confusing the people is very bad and we hate corruption". 

 

Instead, it took 4 months for the people investigating him to say it's not complete and then try to put the onus on the manufacturers of the watches. And we now have the deputy telling us it's over and it was just a set up to discredit the prime minister. 

 

"We were very close and he was very rich for quite a long time. He lent me the wristwatches for 20-30 years. When I became bored with any of them, I returned them to him and he lent me new ones"

 

Clearly a man of the people. Many Thais live hand-to-mouth just trying to get through the day. This man's life is so hard he gets bored with wearing the same luxury wrist watches. 

 

Abhorrent. 

[Thailand]

Article from January.

 

"A former military officer speaking on condition of anonymity named Pattawat Suksriwong as Prawit’s friend who had lent him the watches. Some of the luxury watches Prawit was seen wearing previously belonged to the late businessman, who passed away last year, the source said.

“Pattawat collected luxury watches. He had a collection of hundreds of them,” the source said. “He lent them to his close friends and Prawit is one of those friends. Their friends who went to the St Gabriel School know this.” ,

 

 

[Just Weird]

21 minutes ago, maxcorrigan said:

That's it then, all explained satisfactorily no mystery at all, case closed! 

No, it's not closed, it's just the first time that he has commented in public, the investigation is still ongoing and the decision is the NACC's, even Prawit himself said that in the article.

[Get Real]

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

Mr Patthavart whom he described as a very rich businessman with tens of billion of baht fortune and a wristwatch collector who had 200-300 timepieces in his collection.

Ok, he died last year. If he now had such a big collection of writwatches of high value, I am quite sure that the family have been saving att least 20-30 out of sentimental value. Just to check up. Or if not, it must be easy to find out if somebody have been selleing a collection of writswatches of that amount of pieces. 

His unbelievable story makes it an easy story for target practice. How many holes can you shot in this story? Only 10 baht per person. 

[djayz]

16 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Yeah, tried it with the Thai name (pulled from a "watch" article in the Thai press).

 

Nothing other than other watch articles in my (admittedly quick) search.

 

And surely, since the gentleman has passed away the watches are part of his estate and should be returned to the family. Unless of course they were left to k. Prawit in his will (which will shortly appear methinks).

 

 

If the watches were in fact left to him in a will, then they legally become his assets and should therefore be declared. Catch 22 me thinks. 

[sawadee1947]

Many tiny men need something to appear as a Big Boss. And he needs to show watches.

Of course he's not telling the truth. He would lose his face. So we'll have to go on with this story until....people will forget it.

Also it was not disclosed what the watch makers told the govt about the buyer of these watches. Is the govt. afraid of the truth????

[Stargeezr]

To thik that this guy is number 2 in the present government.What a laugh!

  Cannot tell the truth now because it would damage his face, not to say damage

his supposed reputation.

Geezer

[rkidlad]

9 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Surely that would be the concern of the family, no one else, least of all Thaivisa members.  Does it matter whether he has returned them, what difference does it make if he hasn't?

And how is his comment of any concern to you?

 

Are you really looking to be bullied today by making more nonsense replies to a sensitive subject? 

[Just Weird]

35 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Google his name and only 1 result, this article !!!

Really?...I got 53,499 more results than you did when I did it!  Strange.

 

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Just Weird

[Lemonltr]

So now that's cleared up let's have the 25 watches laid out and photographed together with manufacturers serial numbers.

 

[djayz]

2 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Really?...

 

 

Pat, you googled the WRONG name... 

 

[maxcorrigan]

18 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

No, it's not closed, it's just the first time that he has commented in public, the investigation is still ongoing and the decision is the NACC's, even Prawit himself said that in the article.

My comment was sarcasm which must have flown straight over your head, lighten up of course it's not over!