Courts Of Justice Deny US$150 Million Bribe Offer To Influence Verdict On Thaksin Assets

[Chris Lawrence]

UPDATE

Court secretary says judges not biased against Thaksin

BANGKOK: -- The secretary of the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of the Political Office said Monday that judges are not a party in the conflicts and are not biased against former prime minister Thakisin Shinawatra.

Anurak Sanga-areekul, the secretary of the division, said judges were not bent on making a verdict in farour of or against anyone but the judges will make their ruling based on facts.

"I would like to remind the public that judges are not a party in the conflicts," Anurak said, referring to the planned protest by red-shirt people on Friday when the Supreme Court will read the verdict of the assets seizure case against Thaksin.

-- The Nation 2010-02-22

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Shouldn't it be based on the law? Facts are what are presented in order to determine the interpretation of law?

[haihoa]

Not surprised. A desperate man.

Just let it all go away and let the country move on....all these stupid court trials are politicized and will just keep the Thai economy in crap city.

A Reminder...

That's a sensible suggestion, just advocate that Thailand revert back to the free-wheelin', free market days that sent the entire "global economy" (however defined) into an irreversible tail-spin...as if Thailand was immune from the real estate/banking practices and bubbles of the West.

This forum is laughable in its imagined precept as a medium for open and candid discussion. And we, as foreigners, are naive to engage in what I consider to be largely discussions of "the politics of inconsequence," if I might coin a phrase. We are right where the Thai government wants us: marginalized, detached, segregated and conspicuously marooned in our Western-styled ghettos and comdominiums...left to our visa-runs and check-ins and to the largely mythical pursuit of providing Thailand with what it perceives as the necessary evil of language, Western "know-how," and the techno-goodies of the day that might or might not facilitate the almighty "trade" potential with Western markets and partnerships for whom the Thais are forced to love, hate and fear at once. Thailand has been good at the game historically, some would say, with its claims of colonial independence, its agility in production of Western designed goods for Western markets, the sustenance of its own unique cultural integrity and continuity, and for its generosity to refugees, at times, during the upheaval of neo-colonial Indochina. (Whew, didn't think I could ever use that name again.) But we must remember that we are here at Thailand's bidding. We, as Falang, are tolerated...our hair, our manners, our dress, our tattoos, our odd behavior, our rationality and irrationality, our own intolerance or ignorance of Thai customs and taboos...we are not by any means generally accepted, but merely tolerated. And there are ample reasons for a genuine distrust of foreigners, and ones that predate the advent of the "Falang." But I've digressed far too far.

We need to content ourselves with the limited understanding we have of local politics. We need to bicker and fret over corruption, over whom in which colored clad polo shirt might wrest the next cycle of uprisings from the front pages of local "papers of record." We need to lull in our private satisfaction of knowing as much as we know, as much as is printed, and only as much as we can perceive from an extremely isolated perspective. We have perhaps only two thirds the picture at hand, and can only guess at the rest, but not talk about it, debate it, or otherwise include it in any coherent analysis of what we see or what is reported. One thing is certain, however, and that is the fact that the Red Shirts are here to stay, and the means with which they are "reconciled" by the rest of the power elite will, in large measure, define Thailand's political future, if not its economic future as well.

[eggomaniac]

Who is offering the Alleged bribe, Red or yellow?

Can you read?????? Do you comprehend if you do????????

The *first* sentence in article: "The Courts of Justice in Bangkok have denied a report that judges considering the case of Thailand's fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's assets have been offered five billion baht (US$150 million) in bribes...."

There was no bribe. There was no bribe offered.

Jebus.

You're the one who didn't read!!!!!! and comprehend!!!!! point in fact - notice the use of word 'Alleged'! Moetown NEVER said there was a bribe offer [Jebeezus]

On the singular point of the report of an 'alleged' bribe, I am also curious who they referring to, the Reds or Yellows??? fair question If someone was 'supposedly' offering a bribe the report should have clarified who the suspect was, Thaksin or Sondhi....

AND it only an allegation there was no bribe offered, as well.

[hawker9000]

Symptoms and signs of desparation from the Thaksin camp for some time now, and this just sounds like more of the same...

Edited February 23, 2010 by hawker9000

[Mario2008]

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