Ratsadon’s ‘duck’ currency violates Currency Act: activist

[webfact]

Ratsadon’s ‘duck’ currency violates Currency Act: activist

By The Nation

 

 

The Ratsadon group’s “duck” currency violates the Currency Act BE 2501 (1958) and Criminal Code, Srisuwan Janya, an activist and secretary-general of the Society for Defence of the Thai Constitution, said on Thursday.

 

He explained that pro-democracy protesters under the group handed out 3,000 duck banknotes for use in about 10 stores during the protest at Siam Commercial Bank headquarters on Bangkok’s Ratchadapisek Road on Wednesday.

 

Srisuwan also said the banknotes feature a picture of the Democracy Monument, fried meatballs, a white pigeon, Ratsadon’s 2020 coup memorial plaque and inflatable rubber ducks with a value equal to Bt10.

 

He said persons who produce, deliver, use or receive the duck currency face a jail sentence of up to three years or up to Bt50,000 in fine or both under Section 9 of the Currency Act BE 2501, which says that “no person should make, issue, use or put into circulation any material or token for money except by authority of the Finance Minister”.

 

“Besides, they would be punished under Section 240 and 244 of the Criminal Code,” Srisuwan said.

 

Section 240 of the Criminal Code says that “whoever counterfeits currency, irrespective of whether to make as a coin, banknote or any other that is used or authorised to be used by the government or to counterfeit government bonds or interest coupons attached to such bonds, such a person is said to commit the offence of counterfeiting currency and shall be punished with life imprisonment or 10 to 20 years imprisonment and fined Bt200,000 to Bt400,000”.

 

Section 244 says that “whoever possesses anything obtained by him, which he knows to be counterfeited according to Section 240 or altered according to Section 241, shall be punished with imprisonment of 1 to 15 years and fined Bt20,000 to Bt300,000”.

 

“Therefore, police officers can take legal action against protesters and stores for using such currency,” Srisuwan added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30398615

 

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[Thaiwrath]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

Therefore, police officers can take legal action against protesters and stores for using such currency

[RichardColeman]

Better tell my 4 year old daughter to put her Yu-gi-oh thai baht from the market in the bin or face jail !

[ourmanflint]

It's not currency it's coupons. Problem solved

[Phuketshrew]

Waiting for the upcoming BIB raid on a family playing Monopoly ....

[ThailandRyan]

Maybe if they had used this

 

or this

 

 Again the Government is looking for anything political.  Money that is meant to be a joke is now considered counterfeiting.  Such a joke this Government is.

[pokerface1]

If it were printed  with a foreign countries name like Duckville island then the problem is solved. There is no law against people exchanging foreign currency. Good luck finding the island on your globe of the world Prayut. 555???????????? 

[johng]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said persons who produce, deliver, use or receive the duck currency face a jail sentence of up to three years or up to Bt50,000 in fine or both under Section 9 of the Currency Act BE 2501, which says that “no person should make, issue, use or put into circulation any material or token for money except by authority of the Finance Minister”.

 

“Besides, they would be punished under Section 240 and 244 of the Criminal Code,” Srisuwan said

 

Totally ridiculous    these dinosaurs stoop to new lows  and nothing is below them.

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The Ratsadon group’s “duck” currency violates the Currency Act BE 2501 (1958) and Criminal Code, Srisuwan Janya, an activist and secretary-general of the Society for Defence of the Thai Constitution, said on Thursday.

 

He explained that pro-democracy protesters under the group handed out 3,000 duck banknotes for use in about 10 stores during the protest at Siam Commercial Bank headquarters on Bangkok’s Ratchadapisek Road on Wednesday.

 

Srisuwan also said the banknotes feature a picture of the Democracy Monument, fried meatballs, a white pigeon, Ratsadon’s 2020 coup memorial plaque and inflatable rubber ducks with a value equal to Bt10.

 

He said persons who produce, deliver, use or receive the duck currency face a jail sentence of up to three years or up to Bt50,000 in fine or both under Section 9 of the Currency Act BE 2501, which says that “no person should make, issue, use or put into circulation any material or token for money except by authority of the Finance Minister”.

 

“Besides, they would be punished under Section 240 and 244 of the Criminal Code,” Srisuwan said.

 

[chickenslegs]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Section 9 of the Currency Act BE 2501, which says that “no person should make, issue, use or put into circulation any material or token for money except by authority of the Finance Minister”

Assuming that the notes can't be exchanged for cash then they are just vouchers. Same as 7/11 stamps, Tesco Lotus cash vouchers, and many more.

[sanuk711]

There goes my Monopoly game.........

[ThailandRyan]

So much for my Central 100 cash coupon, oh wait somehow thats legal tender for only central....is my play money my kids use for at home transactions illegal as well?

[sammieuk1]

Suppose someone will be Praising Thailand for any old thing any minute now to counter this absurdity  ????

[edwinchester]

What a a joyless, pathetic life this individual must have when all he can do is make frivolous complaints such as this.

[klauskunkel]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Srisuwan Janya, an activist and secretary-general of the Society for Defence of the Thai Constitution

He is obviously a failure at defending the Thai Constitution, so he branched out to defend the Thai Currency. It's easier.

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Better tell my 4 year old daughter to put her Yu-gi-oh thai baht from the market in the bin or face jail !

Pack my monopoly board away quietly before i get hammered.

[nahkit]

Guess this also applies to food courts that use coupons then.

[Caldera]

No wonder that creative young minds are fed up with those killjoy dinosaurs.

[DaLa]

Is Bitcoin still safe?

[Migrosmarket]

Where are all the human rights lawyers that plague the UK/USA/EU when you need them?

[Clarkey611]

1 hour ago, Migrosmarket said:

Where are all the human rights lawyers that plague the UK/USA/EU when you need them?

The human rights lawyers are so scared that they would either be put into jail by the current dictator or disappear without trace, that they do not dare to comment.

 

I like the duck!