webfact Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 EDITORIALAn official version that is just too hard to believeThe NationBANGKOK: -- Most people are convinced the police and govt are lying about the killing of Akeyuth Anchanbutr; there is no choice now but to ensure that justice is done and seen to be doneRobbery is so common in Thailand that it's widely accepted it can occur anywhere and anytime. Yet it was almost immediately discarded as a possible motive in the murder of Akeyuth Anchanbutr. The businessman and government critic's conflicts with both the police and the ruling party left many observers suspicious of a darker cause. That the police investigation has progressed rapidly - a rarity in such a high-profile case - only adds to the doubt.Who killed Akeyuth and why? These questions undoubtedly require thorough investigation. The least familiarity with the law should prevent anyone from jumping the gun and voicing assumptions. Yet the same day Akeyuth's death was confirmed, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung declared it the result of a robbery, telling reporters that the man's chauffeur, Santiparb Pengduang, had murdered his boss for his money. Chalerm's outrageously premature judgement raised suspicion further. How was he in possession of such "facts" so soon? Akeyuth's lawyer, Suwat Apipak, responded firmly that the killer's motivation was not theft.No one expects quick answers in a murder investigation like this, but the police have made extraordinary progress in a short time. The discovery of the body, the interrogation of the suspect and the re-enactment of the crime proceeded at such a rapid pace that they served in turn to make the case seem more mysterious. The more the police attempt to demonstrate that the businessman was murdered for his money, the more doubters appeared on newspaper opinion pages and in online forums.Loopholes in the investigation seemed to loom large. Sceptics on Facebook share the dubious points that must be challenged. Why did the alleged murderer go home to see his parents immediately afterward? How did the van in which Akeyuth was supposedly killed pass so many police checkpoints between his home, Suvarnabhumi Airport and Pattalung, where his body was ultimately found? Why have the police failed to recover Akeyuth's missing valuables, including Rolex watches? And why was it so much easier to determine the murderer in this case than it is to track down the owners of the luxury cars that caught fire while being shipped through Isaan?The clear indication in all this questioning is that a large segment of the public mistrusts the police and government's handling of the case. Thailand's failure to adopt international standards of justice might be misguiding us to yet another case of injustice. In more developed countries, if a murder case involves politics, investigators who are independent of the local police take charge. Akeyuth's murder is in this category. He was well known as a critic of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra and it was he who sparked a furore over Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra meeting a businessman at a Bangkok hotel. Akeyuth had also filed a libel suit against Bangkok Police Chief Kamronwit Thoopkrachang - a Thaksin devotee - over a police raid on a karaoke bar. Kamronwit is, of course, now chief investigator in the murder of a man who sued him.Meanwhile missing lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit's widow Angkana has claimed that some of the police officers who captured the suspects in Akeyuth's case were also implicated in the unsolved disappearance of her husband in 2004. Whether true or not, the accusations further darken the clouds over the current investigation.This sordid investigation has rubbed salt into the wound of public mistrust for authority. It is a matter of urgency for the police and government to regain credibility. They must ensure that the justice system works without compromise. The murder of Akeyuth has become a critical matter. The police and government have no choice but to prove to the public that they can be just as well as trustworthy, whether or not the victim is their friend or foe.-- The Nation 2013-06-19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Most people were convinced about the Somchai case too but the mastermind was never caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gemini81 Posted June 19, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2013 Chalerm knows who and how; he always does. They're his cronies. Protect them like your sons, Chalerm! 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Are we on the eve of a first for Thailand which would see the real motive made public, ALL those involved arrested and dealt with and Chalerm admitting he was wrong from the start, providing he's not involved somehow that is ?. As John Lennon sang " you may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one " but I am more definite, I'm not a dreamer more like deranged if i believe this might happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticBhoy Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Jackanory comes to Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benalibina Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Its a funny country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rametindallas Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 It looks like the PTP is capable of using the 'Dark Hand', also. That 'Dark Hand' sure gets around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tatsujin Posted June 19, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2013 (edited) Are we on the eve of a first for Thailand which would see the real motive made public, ALL those involved arrested and dealt with and Chalerm admitting he was wrong from the start, providing he's not involved somehow that is ?. No. Business as usual here, nothing will come of it except some lowly lackey paid to take the fall and the blame. Edited June 19, 2013 by metisdead 30) Do not modify someone else's post in your quoted reply, either with font or color changes, added emoticons, or altered wording. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cup-O-coffee Posted June 19, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2013 The least familiarity with the law should prevent anyone from jumping the gun and voicing assumptions. What does being familiar with the law have to do with anything in this cracker barrel of a country, you morons; and why should it prevent anyone from jumping the gun, when most gun jumpers and even the children and soi dogs know the truth of the former? Don't piss down people's backs and tell them it's raining, 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somrak Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 (edited) Chalerm knows who and how; he always does. They're his cronies. Protect them like your sons, Chalerm! ...and everybody who is angry about protests, as happend in Chiang Mai, have the right to the same actions the PT thinks are OK for red terrorists!?. What the families of the murdert in 2001/2 should do! What ..... NOTHING TiT Edited June 19, 2013 by Somrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 ...correction....it was stated before any news report........or any body was found.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emdog Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Like Deep Throat in "All the President's Men" said "Follow the money trail" and I don't mean from whatever may have been stolen from the deceased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waza Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 It is suspicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GooEng Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 "Most people are convinced the police and govt are lying about the killing of Akeyuth Anchanbutr" Given the circumstances this seems very reasonable assumption to make and assuming its correct, how on earth can it be ensured that "justice is done and seen to be done" if the very bodies responsible for justice (cops & govt) are lying? Thailand, hub of the sinister ironic paradox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Donnie Brasco Posted June 19, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2013 (edited) All "official versions" or official explanations are pieced out for mass consumption, are they not ? This applies to any explanation issuing from a group as small as a husband and wife discussing her discovery of a condom in the family car to post-catastrophic rigamoroles pumped out by global agenda outfits like NATO or the IMF. It should come as no great surprise, then, that accounts of the murder of some Thai bagman would be released piecemeal and subsequently analyzed amidst a flurry of conflicting detail and absence of detail. Some detail (and this goes to the inevitably massive bodies of evidence that accumulate after murders like this on up to massive deep political crime) never surfaces. Investigative threads are smothered with skillful obfuscation. "The power" deems what version of the story will be allowed to emerge. That story will be what emerges. Any conflicting information is "handled". Burning questions are diffused into a million smatterings of unfocused hearsay and conjecture. The remaining tenacious investigators will be ridiculed; their alternate theories left twisting in the doldrums of ignorance. And of course, diversions, celebrity gossip, important entertainments and spectacles, scandal, finance "issues" will soon smother most remaining embers. We are urged to "move on" . . . . . . Ooosh, ooosh, ooosh, hi-yaaah. Most move on, do they not? Like the man said: "(We) can't HANDLE the truth! " So we are rarely permitted to look for it. Why should this play out any differently in Thailand regarding the all-too-quickly announced disappearance and all too pat motives and accounts of Ekayuth, the Thai bagman ? Edited June 19, 2013 by Donnie Brasco 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 In a country with actual freedom of the press, an investigative newspaper would be all over this case. However in Thailand, with their wacky defamation laws, that will never happen, and certainly the truth will never be found out. Hmmmmm I wonder why these laws are in place..... :-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnie Brasco Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 In a country with actual freedom of the press, an investigative newspaper would be all over this case. However in Thailand, with their wacky defamation laws, that will never happen, and certainly the truth will never be found out.Hmmmmm I wonder why these laws are in place..... :-) And just *****which country's***** newspapers are we supposed to believe would be fostering and nurturing the embers of investigative enquiry until the fires of TRUTH had purged resident evil from the land ;-? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cup-O-coffee Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 All "official versions" or official explanations are pieced out for mass consumption, are they not ? This applies to any explanation issuing from a group as small as a husband and wife discussing her discovery of a condom in the family car to post-catastrophic rigamoroles pumped out by global agenda outfits like NATO or the IMF. It should come as no great surprise, then, that accounts of the murder of some Thai bagman would be released piecemeal and subsequently analyzed amidst a flurry of conflicting detail and absence of detail. Some detail (and this goes to the inevitably massive bodies of evidence that accumulate after murders like this on up to massive deep political crime) never surfaces. Investigative threads are smothered with skillful obfuscation. "The power" deems what version of the story will be allowed to emerge. That story will be what emerges. Any conflicting information is "handled". Burning questions are diffused into a million smatterings of unfocused hearsay and conjecture. The remaining tenacious investigators will be ridiculed; their alternate theories left twisting in the doldrums of ignorance. And of course, diversions, celebrity gossip, important entertainments and spectacles, scandal, finance "issues" will soon smother most remaining embers. We are urged to "move on" . . . . . . Ooosh, ooosh, ooosh, hi-yaaah. Most move on, do they not? Like the man said: "(We) can't HANDLE the truth! " So we are rarely permitted to look for it. Why should this play out any differently in Thailand regarding the all-too-quickly announced disappearance and all too pat motives and accounts of Ekayuth, the Thai bagman ? Thank you. A well crafted post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtualtraveller Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 There is, of course, a very easy means of demonstrating the police's double standards. Arrange for the 'robbery murder' of some businessman allied to Govt who has enemies among the opposition. See if the police treat it as a open-shut robbery case. See how quickly Chalerm dismisses it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsetBkk Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 There is, of course, a very easy means of demonstrating the police's double standards. Arrange for the 'robbery murder' of some businessman allied to Govt who has enemies among the opposition. See if the police treat it as a open-shut robbery case. See how quickly Chalerm dismisses it. Go on then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OzMick Posted June 19, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 19, 2013 There is, of course, a very easy means of demonstrating the police's double standards. Arrange for the 'robbery murder' of some businessman allied to Govt who has enemies among the opposition. See if the police treat it as a open-shut robbery case. See how quickly Chalerm dismisses it. I vote for Thaksin. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Its a funny country. Unfortunatley a dangerous one , that not too many tourists know about, is the DARK HUB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSlatersParrot Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Quote: An official version that is just too hard to believeThe Nation"BANGKOK: -- Most people are convinced the police and govt are lying about the killing of Akeyuth Anchanbutr; there is no choice now but to ensure that justice is done and seen to be done" justice seen to be done. That would be a first. Conspiracy theorists abound. Wasn't 5000000 baht taken out of Akeyuth's account by his driver using a cheque? £100,000 a lot of money to someone on maybe 300 baht per day. Sure Akeyuth may have had many enemies. He embezzled a lot of money and fled to the UK where he reinvested those funds apparently and made himself rich. Maybe it's just a simple brutal crime. Maybe there's more to it possibly more about the girl to come out. Like the poor guy from liverpool who fell from the balcony (popular way to go in Thailand, always happening) the truth may just be quite simple. If important people wanted him dead it wouldn't involve money, not 5 million baht and if it was about money and he was very rich it would be about a lot more money. Money that a simple driver wouldn't have a clue as to how to get hold of, . It is curious why the bank gave out the money but I believe Akeyuth contacted them personally. Any checking ought to include checks on his finances at the time and anything unusual. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waza Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 (edited) Quote: An official version that is just too hard to believe The Nation "BANGKOK: -- Most people are convinced the police and govt are lying about the killing of Akeyuth Anchanbutr; there is no choice now but to ensure that justice is done and seen to be done" justice seen to be done. That would be a first. Conspiracy theorists abound. Wasn't 5000000 baht taken out of Akeyuth's account by his driver using a cheque? £100,000 a lot of money to someone on maybe 300 baht per day. Sure Akeyuth may have had many enemies. He embezzled a lot of money and fled to the UK where he reinvested those funds apparently and made himself rich. Maybe it's just a simple brutal crime. Maybe there's more to it possibly more about the girl to come out. Like the poor guy from liverpool who fell from the balcony (popular way to go in Thailand, always happening) the truth may just be quite simple. If important people wanted him dead it wouldn't involve money, not 5 million baht and if it was about money and he was very rich it would be about a lot more money. Money that a simple driver wouldn't have a clue as to how to get hold of, . It is curious why the bank gave out the money but I believe Akeyuth contacted them personally. Any checking ought to include checks on his finances at the time and anything unusual. My guess is it will be the driver will be found guilty and this will become another case for the conspiracy theorists. Along with the blue diamond ect ect Having said that its interesting to note that a great deal of the public indicate that they are suspicious of this government and feel it cant be trusted. Edited June 19, 2013 by waza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thhMan Posted June 19, 2013 Share Posted June 19, 2013 Thailand is retards... Fingers crossed the next generation is not so retarded 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baerboxer Posted June 20, 2013 Share Posted June 20, 2013 Quote: An official version that is just too hard to believe The Nation "BANGKOK: -- Most people are convinced the police and govt are lying about the killing of Akeyuth Anchanbutr; there is no choice now but to ensure that justice is done and seen to be done" justice seen to be done. That would be a first. Conspiracy theorists abound. Wasn't 5000000 baht taken out of Akeyuth's account by his driver using a cheque? £100,000 a lot of money to someone on maybe 300 baht per day. Sure Akeyuth may have had many enemies. He embezzled a lot of money and fled to the UK where he reinvested those funds apparently and made himself rich. Maybe it's just a simple brutal crime. Maybe there's more to it possibly more about the girl to come out. Like the poor guy from liverpool who fell from the balcony (popular way to go in Thailand, always happening) the truth may just be quite simple. If important people wanted him dead it wouldn't involve money, not 5 million baht and if it was about money and he was very rich it would be about a lot more money. Money that a simple driver wouldn't have a clue as to how to get hold of, . It is curious why the bank gave out the money but I believe Akeyuth contacted them personally. Any checking ought to include checks on his finances at the time and anything unusual. Of course you may be right. Simple robbery by an upset employee may be the reason. The fact that the victim was the only witness for the defendants in the PM's FourSeason's defamation case; and that the defendant had recently claimed he had damning information on the government he was about to reveal on social media; and that he had discussed his safety concerns with a high ranking former special branch officer prior to his murder, may all be totally unconnected. I guess we will never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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