Three more indicted in Somdet Chuang’s car scandal



BANGKOK: -- The Department of Special Investigation has decided to charges against three more individuals for alleged involvement in Somdet Chuang’s vintage Mercedes Benz scandal.

The decision to indict Mr Kasemsak Pawangkanant, Mr Metheenan Nitithitiwong and Somnoek Boonprapai came after a meeting of enquiry officers of the DSI and public prosecutors to examine all the relevant evidences pertaining to the smuggled vintage car belonging to the abbot of Wat Paknam Phasicharoen who is also acting supreme patriarch.

The meeting agreed there are sufficient evidences to indict Mr Kasemsak with charge of involvement in the smuggling of the vehicle and to indict the two others with the charge of giving false statements to authorities in order to evade taxes.

Pol Lt-Col Korawat Panprapakorn, director of the special cases operations office of the DSI, said two other people, Mr Pichai Veerasitkul and Mr Vasu Chittipattanakulchai, were also implicated in the offences allegedly committed by Mr Kasemsak.

DSI chief Pol Col Paisit Wongmuang, meanwhile, disclosed that the DSI was waiting for a report of excise tax assessment of the Mercedes and who should be liable to tax payment from the Excise Department.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/three-indicted-somdet-chuangs-car-scandal/


-- Thai PBS 2016-07-29

"sufficient evidences"....already then. Case closed.

If they have sufficient evidence to charge these accomplices then where are the charges to the acting supreme patriarch? Surely the need him defrocked and arrested for abusing his power and for evading taxes. Oh wait! They can't even get that monk in bkk to surrender. I imagine it would be even harder to get the Supreme patriarch!

Stop talking about we have enough evidence to bring charges.

Get on with it. For to long to many so called hi-so/ senior monks/ government officials, have been abusing their powers to get away with cheating.

beautiful car though why any monk has a car is beyond the scope of my knowledge of Buddhism but maybe it's the 'thai version'

Hard time for corrupt people in Thailand...

Maybe Thai monks have a different definition of material possessions (they are supposed to have any!!!)