Ex-PetroSaudi exec gets three years in jail

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Ex-PetroSaudi exec gets three years in jail
The Star
Asia News Network

BANGKOK: -- Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo has been sentenced to three years in jail for trying to blackmail his former employer, PetroSaudi International.

Court officials said a Bangkok criminal court judge ruled that the 49-year-old would begin serving his sentence from June 22, the date of his arrest.

He will serve his full sentence in Thailand. The court halved his six-year sentence thanks to Justo's guilty plea.

The former IT executive at PetroSaudi was charged under Section 338 of the Thai Penal Code, which carries a jail sentence of between one and 10 years, and a fine of between Bt2,000 and Bt20,000.

Court officials said Justo had 30 days to appeal the sentence.

When contacted, Justo's lawyer Pranot Kalanuson said he would consult his client on the next step.

"I will discuss with my client on whether he wishes to appeal," Kalanuson said.

Justo is alleged to have stolen data containing confidential information on a joint venture between PetroSaudi and 1MDB, and is said to have agreed to sell it to a group of Malaysian individuals.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Ex-PetroSaudi-exec-gets-three-years-in-jail-30266745.html

-- The Nation 2015-08-17

[Thai at Heart]

Did he commit an offence in Thailand?

[bangkokfrog]

Arrested on June 22 and sentenced within 2 months? It would be nice if the rest of the Thai court system worked that way. I can only think that he may mistakenly believe that he will be safer in a Thai jail than wherever it is he would be extradited to.

[Cloggie]

If the suspect would have been a Thai National it would have taken years - or maybe even never.

Sentenced within two months, lets have a look into my memory, I see a motorbike / police officer dead / a ferrari and that was years ago and guess what, nothing still has happen...

Of course that was a Thai person from a wealthy family but that has nothing to do with it....