Bangkok Bombing Suspects' Interpreter Says Cops Plant Drugs on Him

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Bombing Suspects’ Interpreter Says Cops Plant Drugs on Him
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter


Security officers escort Mohammad Bilal and Yusufu Mieraili to the martial court in Bangkok, Nov. 12, 2015

BANGKOK — An interpreter for the two men on trial for last year's deadly bombing in Bangkok denied he was carrying drugs when police arrested him Wednesday after he testified in their trial.

Sirojiddin Bakhodirov, an Uzbek man who's been helping translate for the two Uighur defendants since September, denied possessing marijuana and crystal meth when the police stopped him on Soi Sukhumvit 5. Police said it was mere coincidence that brought them to stop and search Bakhodirov on the same day he testified in a military courtroom that he has been attacked and threatened to not help the two men.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1464788384&typecate=06&section=

-- Khaosod English 2016-06-02

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Bombing Suspect Interpreter Arrested After Telling Court ‘I Worry About My Life’
By Sasiwan Mokkhasen
Staff Reporter


A powerful blast left a scene of devastation August 17 at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine, killing 20 people and injuring nearly 100.

BANGKOK — An interpreter for the two men being tried for last year’s Bangkok bombing was arrested this afternoon hours after testifying that he was assaulted by four men who threatened to have him deported for helping the defendants.

Sirojdolin Bakhodirov, an Uzbek national, who has been interpreting for Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili since their first court appearance in February, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by police and is now being held at Lumpini Police Station. A lawyer for one of the defendants said Bakhodirov was being held on a drug-related charge.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1464774016&typecate=06&section=

-- Khaosod English 2016-06-02

[Reigntax]

Straight from the RTP investigation and justice manual.

Cannot find a suspect. Select any person, not Thai.

Fit him to the crime.

Fabricate evidence.

Charge him with the crime.

Collect reward money

Purjure yourself in court

Case closed.

Receive congratulations from the PM and some shiny new medals for a great job done and limiting damage to the image of Thailand.

Edited June 1, 2016 by Reigntax

[jamesbrock]

So, an Uzbek national, who has been interpreting for the police, is now being accused of "helping the suspects" so the police someone bashes him and threatens to have him deported (not the police, even though they're the only ones who can have someone deported...), and he then gets arrested "carrying drugs" the very same day?

And we're supposed to believe this bulldust?

Thailand: ASEAN hub of justice affairs

[Lantern]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

Edited June 1, 2016 by Lantern

[Somtamnication]

Europe will take him in.

[FourAces]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

Thailand has been the laughing stock for along time.

It is very hard for the average Thai to get a resident visa in my country as the Government doesn't want them.

Thai education,qualifications and degrees are not recognized or accepted,as the Government doesn't want them.

Sydney based organized crime were bringing in Thai prostitutes by the truck load to work in the brothels, on holiday visa's. that has been stopped now, as the Government doesn't want them.

And the list goes on.

My wife has a Thai University degree in chemical engineering, we were together for five years then married in my country and its still took me three years to get a permanent resident visa for her, they only wanted to give her a temporary resident visa. She was also not allowed to work until the visa was approved, then, when it was approved, she had to get a certificate IV in English before she could apply for a job.

It is easier for a refugee from Islam country somewhere to get a visa than what it is for a Thai, as the Government doesn't want them, as they have all been tared with the same brush.

Edited June 1, 2016 by FourAces

[NongKhaiKid]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

I'm going with don't care, after all this is LoS and the centre of the world. Their world that is and if there's actually anything outside their borders it doesn't matter.

Consider the post a couple of days ago where schoolchildren said they'd never eaten foreign food thinking McDonalds etc was Thai

[FourAces]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

I'm going with don't care, after all this is LoS and the centre of the world. Their world that is and if there's actually anything outside their borders it doesn't matter.

Consider the post a couple of days ago where schoolchildren said they'd never eaten foreign food thinking McDonalds etc was Thai

never eaten foreign food thinking Mc Donalds etc was Thai

You nailed it on the head there.

[Rayk]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

"Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world."

Sorry to argue your quote so early in the morning but I wanted to clear something up, and that is that Thailand has been the laughing stock of the thinking world since May of 2014 and not slowly becoming as you have stated.

[colinneil]

Thai police planted drugs. PLease do not things like that, it will make the police look bad.

Thai police are models of honesty. How could anyone even think such a thing? Terrible really terrible.

[halloween]

So besides the claims of the defendant, any reason to believe it wasn't a clean bust?

[Caveat Emptor]

So besides the claims of the defendant, any reason to believe it wasn't a clean bust?

If the BIB do something properly, by the book etc and people are skeptical it's little wonder because they've brought their own foul reputation down on their own heads.

Totally self-inflicted injury.

[jamesbrock]

I could very well be wrong—I have been before—but my opinion, based on decades of observing the RTP:

• only the RTP would be invested enough in the case to try to stop a (presumably) independent interpreter from assisting these suspects;
• only the RTP would be stupid enough to miss the point that said interpreter is also assisting them;
• only the RTP would bash the interpreter and threaten him with deportation (in the history of all warning-bashings has any civilian ever thought that threatening someone with something they have no power to do—i.e. deport them? The very thought is preposterous!);
• only the RTP would be arrogant enough to think that the public would believe that someone working closely with police in arguably one of the highest profile cases in the kingdom would even be using marijuana and crystal meth, let alone wandering the streets with it on his person.

As Caveat Emptor wrote, the RTP have brought these well-founded suspicions upon themselves.

Edited June 2, 2016 by jamesbrock

[Ricardo]

Hub of Suspicious Co-Incidences ?

[halloween]

I could very well be wrong—I have been before—but my opinion, based on decades of observing the RTP:

• only the RTP would be invested enough in the case to try to stop a (presumably) independent interpreter from assisting these suspects;
• only the RTP would be stupid enough to miss the point that said interpreter is also assisting them;
• only the RTP would bash the interpreter and threaten him with deportation (in the history of all warning-bashings has any civilian ever thought that threatening someone with something they have no power to do—i.e. deport them? The very thought is preposterous!);
• only the RTP would be arrogant enough to think that the public would believe that someone working closely with police in arguably one of the highest profile cases in the kingdom would even be using marijuana and crystal meth, let alone wandering the streets with it on his person.

As Caveat Emptor wrote, the RTP have brought these well-founded suspicions upon themselves.

So if you can get past your starting point that the RTP are inherently stupid, it doesn't make much sense does it.

How can an interpreter weaken their case?

If they did want him gone, why not simply deport him for overstay?

YOU think that someone appearing in court 4 days/month wouldn't be using drugs, or making self-serving statements such as helping the Thai justice system will get him 7 years jail if deported. On what evidence?

[jamesbrock]

I could very well be wrong—I have been before—but my opinion, based on decades of observing the RTP:

• only the RTP would be invested enough in the case to try to stop a (presumably) independent interpreter from assisting these suspects;
• only the RTP would be stupid enough to miss the point that said interpreter is also assisting them;
• only the RTP would bash the interpreter and threaten him with deportation (in the history of all warning-bashings has any civilian ever thought that threatening someone with something they have no power to do—i.e. deport them? The very thought is preposterous!);
• only the RTP would be arrogant enough to think that the public would believe that someone working closely with police in arguably one of the highest profile cases in the kingdom would even be using marijuana and crystal meth, let alone wandering the streets with it on his person.

As Caveat Emptor wrote, the RTP have brought these well-founded suspicions upon themselves.

So if you can get past your starting point that the RTP are inherently stupid, it doesn't make much sense does it.

How can an interpreter weaken their case?

If they did want him gone, why not simply deport him for overstay?

YOU think that someone appearing in court 4 days/month wouldn't be using drugs, or making self-serving statements such as helping the Thai justice system will get him 7 years jail if deported. On what evidence?

But I can't get past my starting point, that's why my opinion is what it is.

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Erawan bombing case interpreter caught with drugs in Sukhumvit


Image: Daily News

BANGKOK: -- The interpreter in the Erawan bombing case was caught with drugs in Sukhumvit Road yesterday. Later the lawyer for the bombing suspects arrived to call for his release so that justice could be served for his two clients in the case.

The interpreter denied that "ice" found in a cigarette packet and ganja found in a bag were his. A court has said that granting bail is difficult as the interpreter is on overstay and no passport has been produced reported Daily News.

Lumpini police acting on a tip off about drugs in the area had earlier searched Bankhadirok Chirojidin, 38, after he arrived outside MacDonald's at the end of Sukhumvit soi 5. He scrunched up a cigarette packet in his possession and tried to throw it away but police retrieved it and found that it contained 0.8 grams of ice amphetamine. In a leather back pack they said they found 7.2 grams of dry ganja.

He was initially charged with possession of class 1 and class 5 drugs and detained at Lumpini station. He refused to say anything

Later the lawyer for the two Erawan bombing suspect, Chuchart Kanphai turned up to tell police that Bankhadirok was the sole interpreter in the bombing case. He said that when the military court had finished its session he had taken the interpreter to eat in Sam Sen. A Thai man had called the interpreter who said that he had to return a room key and he had then left.

The lawyer said that Bankhadirok was not a Turk as he had said in the police report but was in fact an Usbek. After consultations he said that the interpreter denied the drugs were his and no fingerprints would be found. He had not been unwilling to sign his name on the police arrest report and did not have a passport to show. Police have sent a sample for a urine test for drugs that may bolster their case.

The lawyer said that the translator was a important person in the bombing case as he was the sole interpreter. He was able to speak Uighur and English and this was hard to find in Bangkok. The case would be delayed and his clients may not receive justice if the interpreter was not bailed to continue his work. The suspects must have access to a translator according to law, he said.

Apparently he had been working as an interpreter on the case since September of last year.

A court was asked to consider bail but it was said that this was difficult as bail in such circumstances could only be issued after the suspect's passport was surrendered and a passport had not been produced in this case and the man was on overstay already. They feared he may flee.

Source: Daily News


-- 2016-06-02

[mtls2005]

Sounds like another reward for a job well done needs to be bestowed upon the RTP for stitching up arresting this pesky foreign "interpreter".

[Ireland32]

Well give him a Piss Test, see if drugs are in his system...

[Mickmouse1]

How many hours from the time he testified ti the time of arrest.How far is the court from Soi 5?

The Thai police are very naive indeed if they think most of us will believe them.

I wonder if the poor chap refused police orders to manipulate interpretation and give translation that suits police case and stitch up the accused.

The lawyer should watch his F Ass now.

[NongKhaiKid]

I could very well be wrong—I have been before—but my opinion, based on decades of observing the RTP:

• only the RTP would be invested enough in the case to try to stop a (presumably) independent interpreter from assisting these suspects;
• only the RTP would be stupid enough to miss the point that said interpreter is also assisting them;
• only the RTP would bash the interpreter and threaten him with deportation (in the history of all warning-bashings has any civilian ever thought that threatening someone with something they have no power to do—i.e. deport them? The very thought is preposterous!);
• only the RTP would be arrogant enough to think that the public would believe that someone working closely with police in arguably one of the highest profile cases in the kingdom would even be using marijuana and crystal meth, let alone wandering the streets with it on his person.

As Caveat Emptor wrote, the RTP have brought these well-founded suspicions upon themselves.

So if you can get past your starting point that the RTP are inherently stupid, it doesn't make much sense does it.

How can an interpreter weaken their case?

If they did want him gone, why not simply deport him for overstay?

YOU think that someone appearing in court 4 days/month wouldn't be using drugs, or making self-serving statements such as helping the Thai justice system will get him 7 years jail if deported. On what evidence?

Surely you're not serious asking what damage an interpreter can do to their case ?

Suppose he was to claim he made mistakes when translating or ' Translated ' as scripted by the BIB ?

Remember the KT case where they supposedly used a roti seller who couldn't speak the dialect used by the two Burmese ?

[hansnl]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

Thailand has been the laughing stock for along time.

It is very hard for the average Thai to get a resident visa in my country as the Government doesn't want them.

Thai education,qualifications and degrees are not recognized or accepted,as the Government doesn't want them.

Sydney based organized crime were bringing in Thai prostitutes by the truck load to work in the brothels, on holiday visa's. that has been stopped now, as the Government doesn't want them.

And the list goes on.

My wife has a Thai University degree in chemical engineering, we were together for five years then married in my country and its still took me three years to get a permanent resident visa for her, they only wanted to give her a temporary resident visa. She was also not allowed to work until the visa was approved, then, when it was approved, she had to get a certificate IV in English before she could apply for a job.

It is easier for a refugee from Islam country somewhere to get a visa than what it is for a Thai, as the Government doesn't want them, as they have all been tared with the same brush.

And those muslim "fugitives" are not tarred with any brush?

In my opinion and experience the muslim refugees(?) enter the country and start holding up their hands, while the Thai maybe work in less favourable occupations, have no real good paperwork, but most of them will never hold up their hands....

Now, whom you really prefer to enter your country?

[borisloosebrain]

Amazing they've already arranged for a urine test for drugs. The dude obviously wasn't wearing a Porsche decorated with a dead cops.

[CantSpell]

And since September he has been the interpreter of a suspect of one of the highest case in the country with overstay on his Visa and a passport in Uzbekistan?

MAKE SENSE!!!! That is probably why no one noticed before...

Edited June 2, 2016 by CantSpell

[johng]

They could get him on "working without a work permit" too.

[mesterm]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

I'm going with don't care, after all this is LoS and the centre of the world. Their world that is and if there's actually anything outside their borders it doesn't matter.

Consider the post a couple of days ago where schoolchildren said they'd never eaten foreign food thinking McDonalds etc was Thai

never eaten foreign food thinking Mc Donalds etc was Thai

You nailed it on the head there.

Well Ronald is doing a wai outside...

[Mook23]

^^Sums up the Thai way perfectly.

Thailand is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the thinking world.

Sad thing is they don't seem to know or care.

I'm going with don't care, after all this is LoS and the centre of the world. Their world that is and if there's actually anything outside their borders it doesn't matter.

Consider the post a couple of days ago where schoolchildren said they'd never eaten foreign food thinking McDonalds etc was Thai

never eaten foreign food thinking Mc Donalds etc was Thai

You nailed it on the head there.

and that famous thai astronomer who claimed the sun was created by the universe to shine on thailand and its superior people and all the rest of the world could benefit for free too.

all together: "we're not worthy! we're not worthy! we're not worthy!"

(joke!)

[razer]

Interpreter ... no passport ... overstay ... drug possession

Indicative of where the police get their case-building people.

[SOTIRIOS]

...getting more and more interesting....