Police, not prosecutors, should pursue bribery case against ‘Sakulthorn’ – OAG

 

Sakulthorn Juangroongruangkit

 

Thailand’s Office of the Attorney-General explained today that it did not fail to perform its duty, by not indicting real estate developer Sakulthorn Juangroongruangkit on bribery charges.

 

In November last year, the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases sentenced two officials of the Crown Property Bureau (CPB), Prasit Paipholcharn and Surakit Tangwitwanich, to six years in prison after finding them guilty of accepting a 20 million baht bribe from Sakulthorn, CEO of Real Estate Development Company. Sakulthorn is the younger brother of Thanathorn, leader of the Progressive Movement.

 

The two men falsified a CPB document to dupe Sakulthorn into believing that they could arrange for his real estate firm to win a deal to develop a large plot of prime land in the Ploenchit commercial district, currently occupied by the Telephone Organization of Thailand, without going through an open bidding process.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/police-not-prosecutors-should-pursue-bribery-case-against-sakulthorn-oag/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2020-12-10

 

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The murky old world of Thai law all dependent on how much you personally trouser and who's guilty or innocent by the size of the wedge  ????

Sounds like maybe he was scammed, but at the same time maybe a little greed of what he could use the properties was motivation.  Looks like this government is trying to keep the money he paid instead of returning it and at the same time sending him down the river like his brother because the family is a threat.  Sad isn't it.

They're playing "hot potato", no one wants to be left holding it.