6 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

50 years for a guy using a “company car” private? This is the new max of insanity in thailand.

the naughty boy 

Talk to Thaksin's lawyer, he can fix a free pass to the swimming pool and, given 50 years being a rather long time, even an a la carte outside caterer ........... 

4 hours ago, rwill said:

I guess he didn't confess to it.

 

Anyway it says up to 50 years.  So it could be 1 day.

No it says sentenced to 52 then 50 reduced from 105yrs becoz he confessed 

4 hours ago, rwill said:

I guess he didn't confess to it.

 

Anyway it says up to 50 years.  So it could be 1 day.

Wrong please read the FULL STORY !

Any news about the Redbull heir fugitive ?

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

was today (Oct. 12) sentenced to a maximum of 50 years in jail 

Some are still on Janet and John book 1 with their reading skills.

50 years for borrowing a company vehicle WTF !

Is the justice system based on rules created by the DPRK ? 

5 hours ago, jippytum said:

Poiticians and civil servants in Thailand steal millions from the government and escape justice. Yet this guy gets fifty years jail for using the company car for private use.  Double standards and injustice on display here. 

Always more to these stories. I am wondering who's wife he was fount in the cot with?

Maybe he better could fraud with millions as one of the senators did not long ago... Than he would be not prosecuted at all, but this man probably doesn't have high ranked friends so he has to pay what elites and highranked people don't need to do... Equality in treatment??? Not in Thailand for the common people.

     Do horrendous, law-breaking things as a government official and your punishment is being sent to an 'inactive post'--or selected as a government minister.  Drive what looks like a pretty crap government car for personal use and get 50 years in jail.  Just nuts.

5 hours ago, PeachCH said:

Nothing wrong with this sentence. A strong warning to others. 

Couldn't see his age. But I reckon he will be retired before the 50 years is up.

 

I think the 50 years is a tad OTT. I think the years given should be so that he is let out at 69. So if he is, say 45 when sentenced, then he gets 24 years. Much fairer that way. Not good to know you will probably die in the monkey. Give the guy some hope.

Wow. But kiddly fiddlers and rapists and murderers just have to show remorse and cry a bit and point and get reduced sentences (sometimes no jail at all). 

That is nuts. 

4 hours ago, Asquith Production said:

Considering the offences were committed nearly 10 years ago and still gets 50 years,  someone is not telling us everything

I think it's lucky the crime was detected so quickly. He might have misused the car for more than two years at great loss to the community.????

3 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

In the slammer?  I bet he was sitting in the warden's aircon office drinking the best whiskey.

 

3 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

In the slammer?  I bet he was sitting in the warden's aircon office drinking the best whiskey.

What about the unelected soldier PM who took over the country in an illegal coup and stayed for 9 years? Goodness knows how much his own personal bank accounts rose in that time.

54 minutes ago, stix40 said:

50 years for borrowing a company vehicle WTF !

Is the justice system based on rules created by the DPRK ? 

I hate to think what happens if a farang gets caught stealing a wee bag of kao nio ????

Sums up the law system in Thailand 

You get less time in jail for Murder  rape and scams 

Obviously this guy does not have friends in high places or the brown envelopes are not enough 

50 years in jail is a joke ????

Keep it up, Thailand! Completely unbelievable jurisprudence and believes that the people will take it seriously! North Korea Style!

2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Doesn't the USA also give ridiculous sentences, like 150 years?

Not for the misuse of a company vehicle or any vehicle. Not even for felony grand theft auto❗In the USA that's 3 years max. 

 

This is absurd cuz the punishment FAR exceeds the "crime". 

Message Sent now be good or go to Hell literally, Guess he couldn't pay the Bribe...... ????

9 hours ago, still kicking said:

But murder someone you get Scott free 

Such as?

9 hours ago, still kicking said:

But murder someone you get Scott free 

Garbage.

9 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

50 years for a guy using a “company car” private? This is the new max of insanity in thailand.

21 separate counts/charges over a number of years, as in most countries, multiple charges generate multiple penalties.

8 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

... a senior government official sentenced to a maximum of 50 years in jail...

His two bosses got jail sentences also.

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8 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

well, well, in which country? just wondering  to make sure my eyes aren't playing tricks on me 

A common and ridiculous Asean Now posters (deliberate) misconception that no one in those positions ever receive punishments.

7 hours ago, madmitch said:

Thai jail sentences range from the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous!

He got only 5 years for each charge, what's so ridiculous about that?

7 hours ago, Dickie Dee said:

50 yrs?  How about he just pays back and a big fine. Or termination of employment. Would be get 5000 years for murder? 

Yes, he probably would if he was charged with 21 counts (as in this case) of murder

7 hours ago, traveller101 said:

Let the punishment fit the crime - a core principle of criminal justice.

Nuff said

Yes, 5 years for each crime is enough...so that's what they gave him.

Sounds excessive, but maybe he's out on bail for the next 20 years while he appeals.

7 hours ago, rwill said:

Anyway it says up to 50 years.  So it could be 1 day.

No, it does not say that.   It specifically states that he was sentenced to the maximum of 105 years (5 years for each of 21counts), reduced to the the maximum permitted sentence of 50 years.