Vintage Mercedes: Spare parts firm’s owner claims his receipt was forged

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Spare parts firm’s owner claims his receipt was forged



BANGKOK: -- The proprietor of a motorbike spare parts firm lodged a complaint with the Department of Special Investigation claiming that the receipt which purportedly shows that his firm supplied auto spare parts to a garage allegedly assembling the vintage Mercedes for Somdet Chuang was forged.

Mr Veerachai Inprasert said he didn’t know how the letterhead of his business entity, H.T.Y. Auto Parts Limited Partnership appeared on the receipt but suspected that it could be copied.

He claimed that he didn’t know the owner of NP Garage, Mrs Kanchana Markmuen, whose garage, according to the receipt, paid 50,000 baht for spare parts from H.T.Y Auto Parts Limited Partnership.

He also claimed that his firm only imported bicycle and motorcycle parts and never auto parts.

Mr Veerachai brought with him a copy of his firm’s receipt to compare with the one kept by the DSI which he said was a fake.

The DSI has earlier ruled that the vintage Mercedes was illegally imported and registered but it is yet to indict anyone of wrongdoings.

The vintage car has been kept at a garage at Wat Paknam Phasicharoen, the residence of Somdet Chuang or Somdet Phra Maharatchamangalacharn.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/152055


-- Thai PBS 2016-02-24

[Balance]

Oops! Caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

[Srikcir]

suspected that it could be copied.

Not very solid evidence that it is a fake. Maybe the person who allegedly wrote the receipt can testify to its authenticity.

But the proprietor of the motorbike spare parts firm didn't bring such witness.

Maybe the receipt is a fake but to the knowledge and participation of the proprietor in exchange for renumeration.

[thesetat2013]

Well let's not dilly dally around DSI. Get the prosecution moving on this guy.

[bheard]

This case is going the way of other Thai cases - so many twists and turns that eventually everyone gets bored and forgets about it.

Which is the desired outcome of course!

[springheeled jack]

why is this case of the Mercedes benz being owned by a monk still ongoing monks are not allowed material things .

[sharecropper]

Has anyone else been prosecuted over ownership of these thousands of illegally imported cars (hundreds of which, I seem to recall, were whisked off the dock at Sri Racha without anyone so much as batting an eyelid).

[khaowong1]

why is this case of the Mercedes benz being owned by a monk still ongoing monks are not allowed material things .

You seem to think it's a LAW that monks are not allowed to own material things. That's not true. There is no LAW involved. There are 227 rules that monks live under and this is one of those rules. And I believe that in this case, the temple Wat Paknam owns the vehicle not Somdet Chuang. And even if Somdet Chuang's name is on the registration, it's still not against the LAW. What it is, is improper conduct of a monk.

[halloween]

suspected that it could be copied.

Not very solid evidence that it is a fake. Maybe the person who allegedly wrote the receipt can testify to its authenticity.

But the proprietor of the motorbike spare parts firm didn't bring such witness.

Maybe the receipt is a fake but to the knowledge and participation of the proprietor in exchange for renumeration.

Are you logically challenged? How would the proprietor of the motorcycle parts shop produce the author of a faked receipt?

Why would he be rewarded for a receipt faked by someone else?

BTW a quick examination of the photograph in the OP shows that the faked receipt is not even the same format as the bike shop's version, as the "quantity"(??) column is on the right rather than the left.