Bigger Fines Proposed For Drug Traffickers

[george]

Bigger fines proposed for drug traffickers

BANGKOK: -- The Justice Ministry plans a 10fold increase in fines for peoฌple charged with conspiring to traffic drugs - from Bt50,000 to Bt500,000.

And people found guilty of obstructing police investigaฌtions could face double punishฌment, of up to a year in jail and a fine of Bt20,000.

A source at Government House revealed yesterday that a Justice Ministry proposal to amend the Measures for the Suppression of Narcotics' Offenders Act 1991 would be put to Cabinet next Tuesday.

The ministry claims that some measures have not been effective in suppressing drug gangs or seizing their assets. Thus they have proposed the punishment for conspiracy to traffic drugs be up to five years in prison or a fine of up to Bt500,000, because such crimes affected the economy.

For people who failed to tesฌtify or give documentary eviฌdence, or obstructed police inquiries, the top punishment would be a oneyear jail term and a Bt20,000 fine, compared to the current sixmonth jail term and Bt10,000 fine.

The amendments also stipฌulate that officials are allowed to search a property, a person or a vehicle suspected of involveฌment in drug trafficking and that they can seize assets before or after the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) committee or ONCB secretarygeneral issues an order to investigate. That would help prevent assets from being moved, destroyed or hidden.

The current law requires ONCB committee or ONCB secretarygeneral to order searches and the seizure of assets.

The period of time in which a request for court approval would need to be filed for drugrelated assets, to be given to the drug suppression fund, would be changed to one year.

Currently, such a request can be made any time before a rulฌing by the primary court on a case, or within one year, if there are good reasons for such a delay.

The ministry also wants public prosecutors to be able to file a request to the court to investigate assets related to crimes in cases in which drug suspects die or flee and to order that such assets belong to the fund within two years.

They also wanted the law to allow investigators, who deem certain assets inappropriate to the fund or a burden for the civil service to keep, can ask public prosecutors to request a court order to sell the assets, so the fund obtains money for the assets sold, or that the items can be used by the civil service. The amendments also stipulate that the minister, not Cabinet, should be able to receive reports of the fund's balance sheets and expenses.

-- The Nation 2009-06-26

[jackdanielsesq]

That makes good business sense. Thinking outside the box. Fine them a couple mil on each count, effectively bankrupt them, their families, and sequestrate their estates, then jail them for 20/30 hard. Then hang 'em, in public.

BR>Jack

PS Watch the dealer numbers tank then.

[HenryVIII]

That makes good business sense. Thinking outside the box. Fine them a couple mil on each count, effectively bankrupt them, their families, and sequestrate their estates, then jail them for 20/30 hard. Then hang 'em, in public.

BR>Jack

PS Watch the dealer numbers tank then.

exactly what should happen for the promotion of the most dangerous drug - alcohol

[jackdanielsesq]

Ooooops

BR>Jack

[Lancelot]

That makes good business sense. Thinking outside the box. Fine them a couple mil on each count, effectively bankrupt them, their families, and sequestrate their estates, then jail them for 20/30 hard. Then hang 'em, in public.

BR>Jack

PS Watch the dealer numbers tank then.

Shouldn't we also incarcerate the extended family?

[jackdanielsesq]

Clearly ya someone I can work with

BR>Jack

Shouldn't we also incarcerate the extended family?

[webfact]

That makes good business sense. Thinking outside the box. Fine them a couple mil on each count, effectively bankrupt them, their families, and sequestrate their estates, then jail them for 20/30 hard. Then hang 'em, in public.

BR>Jack

PS Watch the dealer numbers tank then.

Shouldn't we also incarcerate the extended family?

Look back in history!

That idea gives me the creeps.

Its not a good "joke"

[sunholidaysun1]

That makes good business sense. Thinking outside the box. Fine them a couple mil on each count, effectively bankrupt them, their families, and sequestrate their estates, then jail them for 20/30 hard. Then hang 'em, in public.

BR>Jack

PS Watch the dealer numbers tank then.

Shouldn't we also incarcerate the extended family?

Look back in history!

That idea gives me the creeps.

Its not a good "joke"

Trying to get anything out of a Thai criminal would be impossible . They have nothing of ownership in their names. How do you take whats not theirs ?

Who would also investigate the investigators of drug inforcement laws, ie , the Police. How many of them run the business in your area ?

Edited June 26, 2009 by sunholidaysun1