Tharit Pengdit: Judgment looms for ex-top cop caught in Thailand’s red-yellow divide

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Tharit Pengdit, controversial former chief of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), made headlines again last week when the Supreme Court issued a warrant for his arrest after he failed to attend the reading of a verdict in a criminal case against him.

 

Former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and deputy premier Suthep Thaugsuban filed the case against Tharit and three other DSI officers, accusing them of abuse of power and malfeasance for pressing murder charges against them over the crackdown on red-shirt protests in 2010.

 

The court issued the arrest warrant after Tharit asked for the verdict reading to be postponed on six occasions since December 2021, citing health reasons. His latest request, made just a day before the scheduled verdict reading on February 2, said he needed three more months for treatment of kidney disease. His lawyer informed the court that Tharit underwent an operation at Siriraj Hospital on January 29 and needed time to recover.

However, the Supreme Court found that the letter from Tharit’s doctor did not state that his condition was too serious for him to skip the verdict reading.

 

The court said the defendant’s multiple requests for postponement could be considered a delaying tactic to allow the defendant time to escape. It, therefore, issued a warrant for Tharit’s arrest to force him to attend the verdict reading on March 24.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/tharit-pengdit-judgment-looms-for-ex-top-cop-caught-in-thailands-red-yellow-divide/

 

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[internationalism]

so murderers walk free, but those cops, who pressed charges are now with arrest warrants on them.

Institutional Thai injustice system works so well, that prisons are overbrimming with innocents. Is almiost as good, as an american one

[anchadian]

The court issued the arrest warrant after Tharit asked for the verdict reading to be postponed on six occasions since December 2021, citing health reasons.

 

Take out the word health and replace it with business.

No where have I heard of that before?

[hotchilli]

Farcical.

[TheFishman1]

What happened to the cop with all the cars in his garage? I think you killed the guy by putting a plastic bag over his head in the police station

[zzaa09]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Farcical.

Even more so this fabricated red-yellow division that they speak of often. 

Has little to do with the inner workings of Mafia manipulation. 

Pawns.

[Artisi]

3 hours ago, TheFishman1 said:

What happened to the cop with all the cars in his garage? I think you killed the guy by putting a plastic bag over his head in the police station

Have you been comatose for the past 12 months?