Akeyuth probe 'progressing'

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Akeyuth probe 'progressing'
PATINYA IAMTAN
THE NATION



BANGKOK: -- Police investigators say they now have answers to some of the 13 questions raised by the lawyer of businessman Akeyuth Anchanbutr over his abduction and killing.

A source from the investigative team said an autopsy report confirmed that Akeyuth was not tortured, as his lawyer Suwat Apaipak had suspected. The lawyer said Akeyuth's genitals appeared to be swollen, so someone may have hit him there to force him to disclose information. But the autopsy result found that the genitals were not bruised and the swelling was due to the normal chemical process after death.

Suwat had also asked police to locate a house in Nakhon Si Thammarat where suspect Santiparb Pengduang, Akeyuth's chauffeur, and his accomplices allegedly stopped to rest on their way to dispose of the body. The lawyer suspected that some of Akeyuth's missing valuables may have been hidden there.

But the source said the investigative team had located the house, which belongs to a cousin of Santiparb, and did not find any of the missing valuables. Police believe Santiparb stopped there to sleep before heading to Phatthalung.

The lawyer also said that a group of men was seen waiting at the Pradipat Hotel in front of Soi Pradipat 17 on the night that Akeyuth was abducted from a restaurant on the soi. He said Santiparb might have made a phone call to the men.

But the police source said investigators had checked the security camera of a currency exchange shop in front of the hotel and did not see any group of men in the footage.

The lawyer suspected that Akeyuth's iPad and four mobile phones might have been sold at a shop in the Yaowaraj area. Police have combed the area and did not find any trace of Akeyuth's valuables there.


-- The Nation 2013-06-25

[NongKhaiKid]

The lawyer and family will get " answers " but nothing will change as this case is solved and that's official.

[Katipo]

The only way to find out what really happened would be for independent investigators to take over with full co-operation of the police. If the police are involved somehow (or under instruction from above), as many suspect they are, there is no way in heck that anything even resembling the truth will ever surface.

[Noistar]

Strange that there were any unanswered questions, let alone remaining unanswered questions.

Everything was sorted, so it must be disconcerting to have to make everything fit with the original 'case solved'.

I think a sombre, 90 day reflection is in order, so we don't jump to the wrong conclusions.

[soi41]

Does it really matter, who killed this scumbag?

Whoever did it, did society a favour!

[Bellweather]

The only way to find out what really happened would be for independent investigators to take over with full co-operation of the police. If the police are involved somehow (or under instruction from above), as many suspect they are, there is no way in heck that anything even resembling the truth will ever surface.

A truly independent enquiry would have to involve non -Thais and that will never happen. It would be dangerous as the truth might actually come out or at the very least all the flaws that would be exposed would be very embarrassing.

Finally it would set a very dangerous precedent for the future.

[NongKhaiKid]

The only way to find out what really happened would be for independent investigators to take over with full co-operation of the police. If the police are involved somehow (or under instruction from above), as many suspect they are, there is no way in heck that anything even resembling the truth will ever surface.

What a wonderful thought and the first point the independent investigators raise is how did a certain deputy prime minister seem to know what had happened almost before it happened ?

[Neilly]

Does it really matter, who killed this scumbag?

Actually, yes it does, if the authorities were involved and get away with it it doesn’t bode well for society

[Tatsujin]

Does it really matter, who killed this scumbag?

Actually, yes it does, if the authorities were involved and get away with it it doesn’t bode well for society

Unfortunately, some of those in "power" are almost certainly involved, and that's just business as usual in the wonderful LoS.

[tomross46]

This almost like having a fox investigating the killing in the hen house.

Edited June 25, 2013 by tomross46