Pattaya: Court to hear case against gambling figure charged with ordering murder of motorcycle taxi rider

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Picture: INN

 

Somchai Jutikidecha,55 - a leading figure in illegal football gambling on the eastern seaboard - will hear charges in court in Pattaya related to organizing a hit on a motorcycle taxi driver last year, reported INN.

 

He is charged with conspiring in July with two other men who were arrested in December to hire Manas and another man to kill Prathum Sa-atnak, a rider at the Bali Hai rank.

 

He denies the charge.

 

Manas, 40, has admitted to shooting the deceased and along with a man called Niphon to having been paid 200,000 baht for the hit. He is also facing weapons' offences.

 

Somchai was arrested on March 25th, 2021.

 

The case will begin to be heard starting next Wednesday. 

 

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[Surelynot]

So no charges related to running a huge, lucrative gambling syndicate?

[Excel]

The problem is  who ordered the hit ?

[Liverpool Lou]

8 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

So no charges related to running a huge, lucrative gambling syndicate?

...yet.

[Liverpool Lou]

9 minutes ago, Excel said:

The problem is  who ordered the hit ?

He did, at least that's what he's being charged with.

[Surelynot]

Just now, Liverpool Lou said:

...yet.

I guess it depends on getting the envelopes out to the right people.

[Surelynot]

11 minutes ago, Excel said:

The problem is  who ordered the hit ?

You would imagine he was clever enough to be at least four steps removed from actually talking directly to these morons?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 minute ago, Surelynot said:

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

...yet.

I guess it depends on getting the envelopes out to the right people.

but he'll still face the murder conspiracy charges!

[Excel]

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

He did, at least that's what he's being charged with.

so we are expected to believe he paid himself 200,000 THB for the hit ?

[Bruntoid]

2 hours ago, Surelynot said:

I guess it depends on getting the envelopes out to the right people.

I wonder how many times a day this gets said on thaivisa ?? 200 ? 300 ? …

[richard_smith237]

3 minutes ago, Bruntoid said:

2 hours ago, Surelynot said:

I guess it depends on getting the envelopes out to the right people.

I wonder how many times a day this gets said on thaivisa ?? 200 ? 300 ? …

 

I wonder how many times, when its been said written that its true....  

[Operator2002]

2 hours ago, Excel said:

so we are expected to believe he paid himself 200,000 THB for the hit ?

 

Somchai Jutikidecha paid 200,000 THB to Manas and Niphon for the hit.

[Leaver]

10 hours ago, Surelynot said:

You would imagine he was clever enough to be at least four steps removed from actually talking directly to these morons?

 

You would think he has at least one under boss for this purpose, but maybe the prosecution have four witnesses, for the four steps, who rolled.   

[mikebell]

In the photo, which one is the 'gambling figure?'

[SomchaiCNX]

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

In the photo, which one is the 'gambling figure?'

The one with the uniform is his assistant ???? 

[hotchilli]

On 6/19/2021 at 12:38 PM, Surelynot said:

So no charges related to running a huge, lucrative gambling syndicate?

Connected?