Manhunt launched for fugitive South businessman

[Lite Beer]

Manhunt launched for fugitive South businessman
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- Police have warned that anyone providing shelter to fugitive Sahachai Jiansermsin, an influential businessman accused of funding insurgency in the far South, will face prosecution.

According to an informed source, Sahachai was released from custody by a policeman identified as Sub-Lieutenant Arun Srimak and the officer was subsequently jailed for six months.

The source said that the Southern Border Province Police Bureau had urged Pattani provincial police to provide an explanation and to launch a disciplinary probe into Arun's conduct while dispatching a team to hunt down Sahachai.

Meanwhile, acting Pattani Governor Somphoch Suwannarat said the initial investigation into the incident found that Sahachai had fled to another province.

Investigation underway

A deputy provincial police chief in Pattani, Colonel Prabphal Meemongkhol, said an investigation was underway to determine whether Arun had accidentally or intentionally released Sahachai.

Sahachai runs a number of businesses, allegedly including illegal ones such as smuggling oil and contraband items.

He was arrested after the May coup by soldiers and stands accused of financially aiding insurgents in Pattani and two other provinces - among other serious security-related crimes pending prosecution.

The Pattani provincial court recently sentenced him to 21 months' jail for forging a court seal.

A lawyer representing Sahachai, Winij Narathipraphas, said he was processing a request for his client's temporary release from jail when he disappeared.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Manhunt-launched-for-fugitive-South-businessman-30245291.html

-- The Nation 2014-10-12

[ATF]

Six months in jail for the cop and how many millions did he get?

[NongKhaiKid]

Will this be the same all out, no effort spared manhunt that is applied to so many fugitives and when will we hear he is ' believed to have fled the country ' ?

[clockman]

Long gone!

[ParadiseLost]

Spotted on Koh Tao...

[worgeordie]

Just nipped over the boarder to Malaysia, or joined the growing

band of convicted Thais living freely in Cambodia.

regards Worgeordie

[FredNL]

He is living on Koh Rupt now...

[ramrod711]

BANGKOK: -- Police have warned that anyone providing shelter to fugitive Sahachai Jiansermsin, an influential businessman accused of funding insurgency in the far South, will face prosecution.

Pity they don't make a similar statement about the Dubai resident that funded the terrorism in Bangkok.

[Interman]

Has there been no picture released?? Seems only logical for report such as this.

[Lupatria]

Six months in jail for the cop and how many millions did he get?

Enough not to be dependent on an inactive post.

[bangrak]

Six months in jail for the cop and how many millions did he get?

As if a sub-Lt could, would, decide to do such a thing on his own, for an 'influential person'... To me, he's the fall-guy for his superiors, nothing out of the ordinary, TiT. Move on, nothing to see...

[rickirs]

"He was arrested after the May coup by soldiers and stands accused of financially aiding insurgents in Pattani and two other provinces - among other serious security-related crimes pending prosecution."

It would seem that it was only after the 2014 coup leaders suspended the Constitution along with the rule of law defined by it that the military took action to arrest Sahachai under martial law. Yet, the insurgency in the South had been ongoing for a decade or longer, crossing an earlier military coup and coup-led puppet government with no charges brought against Sahachai. Whatever actual probable cause the coup had to arrest Sahachai under martial law (for which no probable cause is required), its action might seem to be tainted with more of a personal vendetta perhaps driven by a frustration from a history of failed military strategies to quell the insurgency.

[ableguy]

"He was arrested after the May coup by soldiers and stands accused of financially aiding insurgents in Pattani and two other provinces - among other serious security-related crimes pending prosecution."

It would seem that it was only after the 2014 coup leaders suspended the Constitution along with the rule of law defined by it that the military took action to arrest Sahachai under martial law. Yet, the insurgency in the South had been ongoing for a decade or longer, crossing an earlier military coup and coup-led puppet government with no charges brought against Sahachai. Whatever actual probable cause the coup had to arrest Sahachai under martial law (for which no probable cause is required), its action might seem to be tainted with more of a personal vendetta perhaps driven by a frustration from a history of failed military strategies to quell the insurgency.

Another armchair theorist wacko.