Court releases ‘fake news’ lottery vendor Thanawat on bail

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Court releases ‘fake news’ lottery vendor Thanawat on bail

By The Nation

 

 

The Samut Sakhon provincial court on Wednesday afternoon granted a Bt300,000 bail release to the controversial lottery vendor Thanawat “Pete” Kamhaengpon.
 

The 35-year-old Thanawat, who was also ordered to report to the court again on September 24, said he would resume his work of selling lottery tickets after the release.

 

The vendor was last week praised as the most honest of lottery vendors for honouring a customer’s purchase of a ticket that won the lottery first prize of Bt90 million, even though it had been bought through the Line messaging app. On Monday, however, he was branded a swindler after it was found that neither the “winning” ticket nor his lucky customer had ever existed.

 

Thanawat dismissed as untrue the accusation brought by Atchariya Ruangratanapong, a lawyer and chairman of the Facebook group for assisting crime victims, that Thanawat had at least four accomplices. 

 

Thanawat said his girlfriend, his younger sister and two other lottery distributors had nothing to do with this action – which has now caused him to face four charges of fraud, violation of the Computer Crime Act, selling overpriced tickets along with document forgery over the lottery ticket photo alteration.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30354313

 

 

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[AsiaHand]

He could have hinted that he had sold a multi million baht ticket but doesn't know who bought it.Then he would have all the business that he could handle.But he wanted that 15 minutes of Fame.

[Andrew Dwyer]

“ fake news “ seems to be be the phrase of the moment ( even Donnie spouts it every week ).
What was wrong with the old phrase “ lying b@stard “ ?