snoop1130 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Court orders tests on elephant tusks from Premchai’s home By The Nation The Criminal Court on Monday agreed to a request to examine elephant tusks confiscated from the house of construction tycoon Premchai Kanasuta in April. Mahildol University’s Veterinary Faculty has been ordered to check whether the two sets of tusks were from domestic elephants and determine their age. Public prosecutors have charged Premchai, his wife Kanita, 64, and her aide Wandee Sompoom, 71, with unauthorised possession of protected-wildlife carcasses, smuggling and concealment of smuggled objects. The defendants have denied all charges and were bailed for Bt300,000. The prosecutors suspected that the tusks were from domestic elephants, while Kanitha claimed that they were from Africa and were inherited from her late mother 30 years ago. The defendants were at Court yesterday. Kanita’s lawyer asked the Court to test whether the tusks were from Thai elephants and their ages. The defendant was ordered to pay Bt5,000 for the testing fee. The confiscation of the tusks resulted from an expansion of the initial investigation after the arrest of Premchai, along with his close aides and cook, in early February for allegedly poaching in Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province. At his campsite, officials found carcasses of protected animals including a black leopard. The arrest caught the country’s attention, partly due to Premchai’s social status and his company’s series of government contracts. Commentators wondered whether the billionaire with close connections to influential people would be convicted and punished. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30356047 -- © Copyright The Nation 2018-10-8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oziex1 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 And on it goes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogmatix Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 A Mahidol professor earns peanuts. So definitely Premchai will get the answer he wants and a professor will get a couple of years salary. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cadbury Posted October 8, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2018 1 hour ago, snoop1130 said: Court orders tests on elephant tusks from Premchai’s home What about the dump he took near his truck? Have they tested that yet for panther penis DNA like they said they would. The tape recording which supposedly proved bribery of park rangers has gone missing. Maybe the dump has vanished as well. Soon there will be no evidence left at all. Ultimately he could be awarded compensation for all the inconvenience he has been put through. I jest not. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Oziex1 Posted October 9, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2018 Sadly this is going to end the way we all expect, members of the Justice system will get their bonuses and Thailand will go on being Thailand. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrogaz Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Dragging their heels on this aren't they. This testing was called for 6 months back. The cops are scared stiff to prosecute this sub-human CEO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darcula Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 14 hours ago, snoop1130 said: were inherited from her late mother 30 years ago That elephants penis soup is still the toast of family gatherings. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky mike Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 So that be Changkok ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisi Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Give in a bit longer and it will be "What tusks, what panther?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 "Oh, the tusks are actually plastic! Case dismissed!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 2 hours ago, Pedrogaz said: Dragging their heels on this aren't they. This testing was called for 6 months back. The cops are scared stiff to prosecute this sub-human CEO. In this two-tiered justice system: 'Justice for the elite' = stretching out the proceeding long enough to trip the statue of limitation on the case. Simply look at the cop killing Red Bull heir. Justice by non-prosecution. It's a travesty, but it's the way of the world, especially here in the LOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunderhill Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 17 hours ago, snoop1130 said: inherited from her late mother 30 years ago. Yet another "dead friend" I'm going to have to remember this one as my get out clause. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dap Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Could'a swore I read this a few months back 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 I must be reading the wrong newspaper: months ago, short after those tusks were confiscated, it wrote that a bill for the tusks purchase had been found, and that it was not an old one... Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrunner Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 I've been here, turn to the next page...once you get to Thai billionaire with important connections, there is no need to go further and save the print, nothing will come of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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