Court sentences former Democrat MP one year in prison

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Court sentences former Democrat MP one year in prison



BANGKOK: -- The Criminal Court on Friday sentenced former Kanchanaburi MP of the Democrat party one year in prison after finding him guilty of illegal occupation of more than 1,000 rai of state land in Dan Makamtia and Suan Pueng districts of Ratchaburi province for personal interest.

The former MP, Pracha Popipit or widely known as Kamnan Sia, 71, was prosecuted by the state attorney in the Criminal Court after he was accused of illegal trespassing, burning forest areas, constructing buildings in more than 1,000 rai of state property in Dan Makamtia and Suan Pueng districts of Ratchaburi province since 1990 to 2004.

Evidence produced by the state attorney to the court was substantial enough to prove he was guilty.

The court then sentenced him to serve one year in prison with no extension of jail term.

Pipit’s lawyer is applying for his release on a 100,000 baht cash as bail.

The former was earlier sentenced by the Criminal Court to five years in prison after finding him and other conspirators of price collusion in a government project.

However he appealed to the Appeals Court which later overruled the first court’s ruling and set him free.

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Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/court-sentences-former-democrat-mp-one-year-prison/


-- Thai PBS 2014-08-29

[Deacon Bell]

Pipit’s lawyer is applying for his release on a 100,000 baht cash as bail.

Surprised it hasn't gone through already.

Perhaps it has.

Convicted, sentenced, then bail....

Edited August 29, 2014 by Deacon Bell

[ikke]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

[ginjag]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

There maybe some corrupt Dems as well as other parties but to make the remark like Quote." they are as corrupt as the Shins" is ridiculous, are you talking about 1 member or all??

[AleG]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

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[oldsailor35]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

No chance mate. The cunning bugger is'nt a Temple to play bingo !

[winstonc]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

...most on here do care scum the lot of them,,1 year for every rai it should have been..the other point is why did he not get done under the ptp government...answer cos their all at it..feel better now

[oldsailor35]

One million bond ? Probably cash he made from the theft in the first place. Anyhow, did he loose any assets which resulted from the theft.

[Chang_paarp]

Pipit’s lawyer is applying for his release on a 100,000 baht cash as bail.

The former was earlier sentenced by the Criminal Court to five years in prison after finding him and other conspirators of price collusion in a government project.

However he appealed to the Appeals Court which later overruled the first court’s ruling and set him free.

In normal English this would mean that the lawyer was earlier sentenced to 5 years and got off on appeal, however I suspect that the "journalist" is referring to Pipit.

[oldsailor35]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

Probably more corrupt as there are more of them.

[pedro01]

seems a light sentence for that amount of theft

[ikke]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

There maybe some corrupt Dems as well as other parties but to make the remark like Quote." they are as corrupt as the Shins" is ridiculous, are you talking about 1 member or all??

ALL !

[ginjag]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

There maybe some corrupt Dems as well as other parties but to make the remark like Quote." they are as corrupt as the Shins" is ridiculous, are you talking about 1 member or all??

ALL !

NOT all, you mentioned the Shins -suppose if you compare Families--they are the worst.

[tomacht8]

Sentenced by the Criminal Court to five years in prison after finding conspirators of price collusion in a government project.

1 year for illegal occupation of more than 1,000 rai of state land, … illegal trespassing, burning forest areas, constructing buildings.

Evidence produced by the state attorney to the court was substantial enough to prove he was guilty.

So six years together.

Guess this fine member of parliament was not even one day in jail so far.

[Tatsujin]

Is this judgement/sentence "politically motivated" or "biased" also . . . ?

[sweatalot]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

I see you are a hater (in this case a democrat hater - probably a shin lover)

Any proof for your claims?

[chainarong]

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NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

No chance mate. The cunning bugger is'nt a Temple to play bingo !

Strange , I could have sworn that Suthep was calling the numbers last Sunday night

[sweatalot]

ipit’s lawyer is applying for his release on a 100,000 baht cash as bail.

100.000 baht bail is ridiculous compared with the hundreds of millions he gained by his illegal conduct

If the law were applied evenhanded prisons would be empty because the bail for 99 % of the criminals would be not higher than 1 baht

Edited August 29, 2014 by sweatalot

[Pib]

Doing prison time is so lower class.

[Bakseeda]

 

One million bond ? Probably cash he made from the theft in the first place. Anyhow, did he loose any assets which resulted from the theft.[/quote

One hundred thousand .... you certainly are an old sailor and must have been bent over the barrel one time too many... to turn that amount into one million... within 5 or 6 posts... but Red Apologists do tend to exagerate quite a lot ..

[djjamie]

I could say the courts have it in for the DEM's, but I won't. That is an easy convenient excuse to defend criminals.

I could throw sh#t at the court house or burn effigies of the judges, but that is what a certain side of the political divide do to prove yet again they do not respect the democratic principle called the rule of law.

I do love Red Shirt logic though or as I like to call it "Pigeon logic". When the PTP ministers get a guilty verdict it is a conspiracy and a dastardly plot by the courts working with the elite to remove the popular elected majority. When it is a DEM on the wrong side of the law like the bangkok governor, Sukhumbhand Paribatra or Democrat MP for Bangkok, Sithiporn Kham-art or even Pracha Popipit as highlighted in this thread it is still a conspiracy. Just look at the previous replies to all these threads.

Sukhumbhand Paribatra conspiracy - It is a token suspension so the courts do not look biased,

Sithiporn Kham-art - why are they not out on bail.

Pracha Popipit - NO democrat will ever do jail time

That my friends is pigeon logic and even when they are constantly proven wrong they still keep up the facade because the PTP and UDD tell them what they should think even when it is against all reason. The only thing less predictable than this lot is a shopping trolleys with a front left wobbly wheel.

[klauskunkel]

Evidence produced by the state attorney to the court was substantial enough to prove he was guilty.

That's nice. Now if the court could only come up with an equally substantial sentence matching the crime, that would be even nicer.

[Suriya4]

There must be a miss understanding. DEM are the good guys. PT ones are the bad.

[MobileContent]

This guy is loaded so no worries he goes free or lets call it bail same same as Sondhi last week.

Money talks and bullshit walks. Hmmh - Is the Ferrari guy still in Singapore? I wonder why the MFA doesn't cancel his passport. Those guy broke every possible law but he is Mr. Bull and red too but the generals don't want to hunt him down.

[h90]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

And how many of the corrupt Shins are doing time in jail at the moment?

Where is Suthep occupying governments land building illegal? Never heard of it.

[belg]

the man steals 1000 rai for 24 years and

"Pipit’s lawyer is applying for his release on a 100,000 baht cash as bail."

[surangw]

real prison, or something much milder ?

[rametindallas]

burning forest areas

I'd like to burn HIM! Totally amoral man.

[sweatalot]

There must be a miss understanding. DEM are the good guys. PT ones are the bad.

yes, that's right (at least most of the time)

I understand that you are trying to be ironic - but you failed

[Roadman]

NO democrat will ever do jail time ! They are as corrupt as the Shins, but no body cares.

Suthep also occupied governments land and buildings illegal, lets see if needs to spend his time in jail, i doubt !

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But, but, but the courts are owned by the Army, and the Dems are their love child. Oh wait its on the Junta / Dems loving Nation web site so the article is obviously propaganda. No got it...it's all a plot by the invisible hand in cohorts with Suthep.