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Certain Sattahip officials allegedly involved in the Mountain B pub fire that killed dozens of people are being accused of dereliction of duty by a famous Thai lawyer and the mourning families of the victims.

 

Activist lawyer Ronnarong Kaewphet and Sub Lieutenant Phuree Neeno, father of a deceased victim, along with 31 family members of the Mountain B pub inferno victims, filed a petition to Maj. Gen. Jaroonkiat Pankaew at the Reporting Center of the Central Investigation Bureau in Bangkok today, October 18th.

 

The lawyer asked the authority to press charges against Sattahip officials for dereliction of duty for allegedly allowing the Mountain B’s owner to run his pub without a license, resulting in 25 fatalities and several injured people.

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/10/18/lawyer-and-families-of-mountain-b-pub-fire-pursue-lawsuit-against-sattahip-officials/

 

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Good… it is only when officials are held accountable for their failure to protect the populace in allowing continued corruption that things may improve…

 

Its is the very absence of this accountability which enables the safety shortcuts, the payoffs, the signing off on unlicensed venues, the back hander for the inspection certifications etc…. 

 

Endemic throughout society, corruption only lines the pockets of those in these positions, those who swan through life on a wave of entitlement targeting their opportunities to profit from thr shortcuts they offer…,

 

Will anything change???… we hope, for the protection of the innocent. 

12 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Good… it is only when officials are held accountable for their failure to protect the populace in allowing continued corruption that things may improve…

You are assuming that it will not be the low hanging fruit that gets the blame, not the actual culprits that will carry on as normal

Another five year bonanza for lawyers; at the end of which all high-ups will be cleared of any wrongdoing and a couple of Somchais thrown in the clink for a month.

Most Thai lawyers I have come across have never lost a case before.  It's not surprising.  Most Thai lawyers work together to settle the matter at mediation.  The mediation room is the battleground, not the court of trial.

 

Don't be surprised if the victims are coaxed into accepting a lousy deal by their own lawyers.