Key Witness In Saudi Murder Case Located In Cambodia: Thailand

[Buchholz]

Foreign Minister Surapong Towichuk-chaikul recently informed Saudi Arabia's charge d'affaires to Thailand that the witness could be located in Cambodia, which was expected to help the case progress

And now 11 months later, the Cousin Foreign Minister's progress amounts to just getting around to asking Cambodia if they could perhaps maybe talk to the witness.

Government working on Saudi case

The government has revealed it is seeking cooperation from a neighboring country to get a key witness to testify in its revived probe into the disappearance of a Saudi businessman more than 20 years ago.

It's too bad that the Cousin Foreign Minister has been so busy on other more pressing issues in all the interim.

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[cloudhopper]

Didn't the statute of limitations on this case take effect recently?

[Buchholz]

Great! Now we'll get to the bottom of who was really behind this.

The pace of getting to the bottom of this is beaten by a snail ( a dead one ).

The Thais are "turning up the heat" after 12 years.

After 22 years from 1990, they still can't even get the pilot light to stay lit.

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Edited November 2, 2012 by Buchholz

[Buchholz]

The witness for this case and who is living in Cambodia is Police Lieutenant-Colonel Suwitchai Kaewphaluek.

A defendant in this case, Police Lieutenant-General Somkid Boonthanom, is saying that the Pheu Thai Party government wants to get Suwitchai to falsely testify against him so that the case can be wrapped up and the PTP government can then pursue the financial rewards of re-establishing ties with Saudi Arabia.

The false testimony would also be in exchange for asylum outside Thailand for Suwitchai's involvement in a separate case in which he was found guilty of murder.

He had previously been convicted for several murders and given a life sentence before fleeing to Cambodia.

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Edited November 2, 2012 by Buchholz

[GentlemanJim]

The witness for this case and who is living in Cambodia is Police Lieutenant-Colonel Suwitchai Kaewphaluek.

A defendant in this case, Police Lieutenant-General Somkid Boonthanom, is saying that the Pheu Thai Party government wants to get Suwitchai to falsely testify against him so that the case can be wrapped up and the PTP government can then pursue the financial rewards of re-establishing ties with Saudi Arabia.

The false testimony would also be in exchange for asylum outside Thailand for Suwitchai's involvement in a separate case in which he was found guilty of murder.

He had previously been convicted for several murders and given a life sentence before fleeing to Cambodia.

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Which is what happens when you allow people found guilty of murder to have bail whilst they sort out an appeal. I wonder where those policemen are that were sentenced to death recently and then given bail while they appeal. the mind boggles, it truly does.

[Artisi]

Great! Now we'll get to the bottom of who was really behind this. Also, no one is above the law. Can't wait to see the real culprits found and sentenced.

In your dreams.

[Artisi]

The witness for this case and who is living in Cambodia is Police Lieutenant-Colonel Suwitchai Kaewphaluek.

A defendant in this case, Police Lieutenant-General Somkid Boonthanom, is saying that the Pheu Thai Party government wants to get Suwitchai to falsely testify against him so that the case can be wrapped up and the PTP government can then pursue the financial rewards of re-establishing ties with Saudi Arabia.

The false testimony would also be in exchange for asylum outside Thailand for Suwitchai's involvement in a separate case in which he was found guilty of murder.

He had previously been convicted for several murders and given a life sentence before fleeing to Cambodia.

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Which is what happens when you allow people found guilty of murder to have bail whilst they sort out an appeal. I wonder where those policemen are that were sentenced to death recently and then given bail while they appeal. the mind boggles, it truly does.

I would normally say "Welcome to Thailand", but as you have been here long enough you already know how it all works.

[LomSak27]

In case some have forgotten Abhisit tried to do the same - but it was right at that 20 year statute of limitations so even if they did grab someone. Say somebody wearing brown, they would never be convicted because 20 years would have been up.

the Saudis know who has the jewels and that may not be the issue - it was the murder of the two diplomats and the busnessman. The Saudis also have a good idea who is a suspect, so if this is the usual dig up some starnge person fob off it will go for nothing like the previous attempts have done.

The dems and Abhisit made fools of themselves playing charades, looks like the PT and Ying want to one up them

[Buchholz]

it was right at that 20 year statute of limitations so even if they did grab someone. Say somebody wearing brown, they would never be convicted because 20 years would have been up.

Police Lieutenant-General Somkid Boonthanom is a current defendant in the case.

the Saudis know who has the jewels and that may not be the issue - it was the murder of the two diplomats and the busnessman. The Saudis also have a good idea who is a suspect

Can you share your Saudi source for this information?

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[lomatopo]

I would speculate that ultimately, at some point in the not too distant future, a significant amount of the original haul will be "miraculously discovered" and returned to the House of Saud with great pomp and circumstance. After all, they can't be worn in public, and they can't be "taken with you", as it were.

[Buchholz]

The dems and Abhisit made fools of themselves playing charades,

The fools charades started with Thaksin, ver. 2.0 with the then Foreign Minister Noppadon (Thaksin's current legal adviser/spokesman)....

Thai Foreign Minister to reopen Saudi gems scandal case

2008/03/06

Thailand hoped to restore the former warm relations enjoyed with Saudi Arabia by concluding the 1980s gems scandal case and other cases believed link to the saga, according to Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama.

Noppadon met Saudi charge d'affaires Nadil H. Ashri who made a courtesy call on him at the ministry.

The Foreign Minister later told reporters he affirmed Thailand wanted to normalise diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia with the aim of re-establishing the Saudi Arabia Embassy and again welcoming its ambassador to Thailand.

Noppadon added diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia could be restored after a conclusion of cases including the Saudi diamond theft and murder of four Saudi diplomats and the disappearance of one Saudi businessman in the 1980s.

http://mathaba.net/M.../item/?x=584487

looks like the PT and Ying want to one up them

We'll see if Thaksin, ver 4.0 can do one better than Thaksin, ver. 2.0

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Edited November 3, 2012 by Buchholz

[LomSak27]

Can you share your Saudi source for this information?

No, but yoiu seemed to have missed the article where the saudis protested the promotion of a police captain ... one who they consider a prime suspect - abhisit told them they did not understand thai protocol blah blah blah and were intereferring in thai internal maters blah blah blah, According to some freinds who now work in KSA, the Saudis have a very good idea who led the hit teams, so when "usual suspects' (that mysterious Mr Abu in 2010) they are not interested

You're a Thaksin obsessor huh, hope its good for you - every Thai goverment since the 1990's has in one way or the other tried to normalize and seek reproachment with the Saudis, without anything substantive its not going to happen tell the KSA leader passes on ...

[Buchholz]

Can you share your Saudi source for this information?

No,

ok, oh well.

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