Warrants for top cop, driver in debt-collecting racket
The Nation


Lt-Colonel Songrak Khunsri

BANGKOK: -- TWO ARREST warrants have been issued for a senior policeman and a civilian who were allegedly part of a debt-collecting racket that authorities say was run by former crime-buster Lt-General Pongpat Chayaphan.

Lt-Colonel Songrak Khunsri, who has been charged with criminal conspiracy and money-laundering, is also on the verge of being discharged from police after he nears a 15-day absence without permission, acting Crime Suppression Division (CSD) commander Pol Colonel Akkharadej Phimolsri said.

The other suspect was identified as Songphol Thongsin, a chauffeur of Pol Maj-General Kowit Wongrungroj, a deputy chief under Pongpat at the Central Investiga-tion Bureau.

Songphol has also been charged with money-laundering.

Songrak, a deputy chief of the CSD's Subdivision 6, was a close aide of Pongpat and known for his good record in solving high-profile crimes, including the arrest of weapons trader Victor Bout.

Finance Minister Sommai Phasi, as chairman of the Bureau's board of directors, asked in the statement for cooperation from the media not to publicise copies of government matters deemed inappropriate for publication in regard to the matter.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Warrants-for-top-cop-driver-in-debt-collecting-rac-30249918.html


-- The Nation 2014-12-16

Wow. This thing is huge!

Gone 15 days without permission! It doesn't take a genious to see that he knew what was coming and fled. They should look for him in Burma or with his buddy Thak

Matey boy plainly has had away a bit sharpish on his toes over the hills and faraway.

Perhaps he is more concerned about the possible actions of his debt collecting colleagues they may well want to ensure total silence concerning, who, what, when and where.

One never knows, perhaps his absence is already permanent as is his silence and he has his own little personal plot of land somewhere.

If that is the situation he is no loss to society.

The Finance Minister asks the media not to publicise government matters deemed inappropriate for publication.

Fair enough and in return will officials stop leaking information to get their 15 minutes and will investigative bodies like the BIB stop telegraphing their intended actions giving suspects advance warning and the chance to leg it.

If someone needs to be questioned go and get them and do it, don't announce publicly if they don't come in by a certain date they will be summoned.

Oh, ' Bye 'Bye then !

the real bandits and thieves of THailand are now hunted and Thailand is becoming a model nation

He will most likely be in Cambodia,along with the growing

number of other Thais on the run from the law,just like a

lot of criminals from the West make Thailand their bolt hole

when on the run.the Thai criminals are going to Cambodia,

with the biggest one in Dubai..

regards Worgeordie

Wow. This thing is huge!

Oh, come on! They've barely scratched the surface and there's a very, very big hidden agenda behind all of this ...

Wow. This thing is huge!

Oh, come on! They've barely scratched the surface and there's a very, very big hidden agenda behind all of this ...

Yeah , maybe an agenda like, we want what they have got.

......on the VERGE of being discharged from the police.... What do police have to do to be discharged and jailed in Thailand ????????

It is all continuing very much in keeping with one common denominator.

This will go as far as allowed and NO further .....

Very interesting articles available outside the ring of fire.

......on the VERGE of being discharged from the police.... What do police have to do to be discharged and jailed in Thailand ????????

Have a more expensive car than your boss has

the real bandits and thieves of THailand are now hunted and Thailand is becoming a model nation

Please tell me, you are kidding right?

Shame all this is focused on just one family.

There's plenty more police corruption outside of this family.

the real bandits and thieves of THailand are now hunted and Thailand is becoming a model nation

Piss take right????? Tip of the ice-berg so far!

have to wonder if the thai authorities will ever start to seize these people houses/bank accounts etc so that their families do not get to live off their corrupt finances, very much doubt it. They seem to think its ok to let their illegally made money remain the property of their families, until they start seizing all the ill gotten gains from these criminals nothing changes. Why should their families get to remain wealthy when it was all gotten through crime, it should all be forfeited to the country and their families made to struggle like everyone else.

As long as the number of arrests because of corruption stays under the 10000 you cannot say that the case against corruption is a serious one ...

the real bandits and thieves of THailand are now hunted and Thailand is becoming a model nation

Read between the lines......it may not appear as many think!

On the verge of losing his job? He has to hurry back to the office, so that his punishment will be a transfer to another district. If he is tried as a civilian he will get a real punishment.

On a serious side, these kind of scum should be executed, like China has successfully done.

Somethings sounds very fishy with this story. I think they want them to run. part of the corruption.

......on the VERGE of being discharged from the police.... What do police have to do to be discharged and jailed in Thailand ????????

Deny an inactive post.

......on the VERGE of being discharged from the police.... What do police have to do to be discharged and jailed in Thailand ????????

Possibly he has to be convicted of the charges which hasn't happened in this case yet?

The potential discharge from the police force is for being absent without permission for 15 days so far, that's not a crime .

Edited December 16, 201411 yr by Sviss Geez

It's great that they've belatedly got around to busting Pongpat and his merry band of bent cops but when are they going to widen the purge and start arresting corrupt officers from other police divisions?

Finance Minister Sommai Phasi, as chairman of the Bureau's board of directors, asked in the statement for cooperation from the media not to publicise copies of government matters deemed inappropriate for publication in regard to the matter.

What on earth is statement supposed to mean tacked on to the end of the article?

Surely all government matters are appropriate for publication and that would be in the public interest.

Wow. This thing is huge!

Oh, come on! They've barely scratched the surface and there's a very, very big hidden agenda behind all of this ...

Interesting conspiracy theory!!

But considering the alleged political sympathies of certain persons, the dots do not connect.

Quite the opposite!!

Finance Minister Sommai Phasi, as chairman of the Bureau's board of directors, asked in the statement for cooperation from the media not to publicise copies of government matters deemed inappropriate for publication in regard to the matter.

What on earth is statement supposed to mean tacked on to the end of the article?

Surely all government matters are appropriate for publication and that would be in the public interest.

Just a nicer wording for censorship!!

Transparency in Thailand?? Not in our lifetime.

It's great that they've belatedly got around to busting Pongpat and his merry band of bent cops but when are they going to widen the purge and start arresting corrupt officers from other police divisions?

You mean 'all' police divisions, surely?

.........one would have to guess that they were tipped off.......

always give plenty of notice when arrest impending. Why don't they have warrant issued , in private and send a car with cops/handcuffs right away ?

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