UPDATE: Former Chonburi Police Chief Cleared of Wrongdoing in Pattaya Pool Villa Shooting Suspect Swap

[webfact]

Pattaya — The former Provincial Police Commander of Chonburi province has been cleared of wrongdoing after he was accused of being linked to an attempt to help the real suspects escape prosecution in a 2022 Pattaya pool villa shooting incident.

First our previous story:
The Chonburi Provincial Police Chief has been transferred to an inactive post and charged for allegedly swapping the real suspects with scapegoats in a pool villa shooting case in Pattaya on October 18th, 2022, according to assistant national police chief Pol. Maj. Gen. Surachat Hakparn.

 

Now for our update:
Pol. Maj. Gen. Kittanate Thanananthavisin, the former Chonburi Police Commander, was demoted to an inactive post in Bangkok following a shooting that shook a pool villa in Pattaya in October last year.

 

The incident implicated an alleged attempt to help the real suspects escape prosecution by swapping them with scapegoats. Several senior police officers in Chonburi were accused of being involved in the foiled plan, including Pol. Maj. Gen. Kittanate and after he was moved to an inactive post a probe was launched against him.

 

Regarding the case in question, on October 18th, 2022, a group of five men forcibly entered a pool villa within a Pattaya resort and assaulted, and caused injuries to the occupants, including teenagers.

 

By Tanakorn Panyadee

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Full story: The Thaiger 2023-09-23

 

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[hotchilli]

Why can I smell whitewash paint?

[ChrisY1]

The cops are just so bad!

[klauskunkel]

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a fact-finding committee issued a statement clarifying that they could not find any implication of Pol. Maj. Gen. Kittanate in the incident

we've been looking, but...

[Cake Monster]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Why can I smell whitewash paint?

I can smell something completely different

[mikebell]

It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

The Chonburi Provincial Police Chief has been transferred to an inactive post and charged for allegedly swapping the real suspects with scapegoats in a pool villa shooting case in Pattaya on October 18th, 2022, according to assistant national police chief Pol. Maj. Gen. Surachat Hakparn.

 

So the current police brass are now saying Big Joke was wrong????

 

Impossible!!!  ????

 

[billd766]

What a surprise.

 

The police investigating the police and finding him innocent.