CSD police raid four targets in connection with drugs, money laundering

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CSD police raid four targets in connection with drugs, money laundering

A combined force of 100 policemen from the Crime Suppression Division, the Police Scientific Crime Detection Division, and the Anti Money Laundering Office today raided four houses in Bangkok  they suspected to have connection with drugs and money laundering.

Two of the targets are the houses of two female suspects charged with fraud for their connection with the suspicious transfer of over 300 million baht worth of listed shares to their accounts by property billionaire Chuwong Sae Tang who was killed in a mysterious car accident in June last year.

The raid was led by Pol Maj Gen Chawalit Sawaengpuet, deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) which commands the CSD.

At the first target on Soi Nawamin 74, police were forced to break in with force after the house owner refused to cooperate and open the front gate.

The house is owned by Ms Anothai Chatwarangkul and is located in a vast area of five rai. She was wanted for money laundering and suspected to deal with a major drug trafficking network.

Five migrant workers were found in the house.

Police were searching for evidence in the house.

Another target is also on the same Soi which police said had link with drug trafficking.

Two other houses are one in Bulavard housing estate on Rama 9 belonging to Ms Uracha Vajirakulthon, and another in Nonthaburi belonging to Ms Kanthana Sivathanapol.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/csd-police-raid-four-targets-connection-drugs-money-laundering/

-- Thai PBS 2016-08-01

 

[Narratio]

What? Raiding the home of a HiSo? Say it ain't so!

What is the world coming to when a common HiSo family can't engage in a little drug trafficking, slavery, fraud, extortion, gun running, corruption of police and politicians, possibly horse doping, smuggling, short changing and parking on yellow lines? The world as we know is descending into barbarism and Chaos.... <Waiter! Another Pink gin, and put a bit more zing it, no ice!>

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

So, did the Sherlocks in Brown actually arrest any of the principal suspects they're looking for???

Hard to tell from the Thai PBS report. No mention of arrests at all.

[seajae]

well at least they actually "broke" in after being told no entry, maybe the owner thought they  had special rights like the monks have recently. Its good to see that the police are actually following through in this and not going back to the station without doing a thing because the gates were locked, can only hope this transfers to future encounters with the monks. 

[gregk0543]

Here is a classic Thai beat up by the press story.  Here they raid several places and all the stories are muddled.

I know this house. I know these people so I know this story.  The people in this house have nothing to do with Drugs. They are business people operating an import business into Myanmar of goods made in Thailand by publicly listed companies.  Turnover is very high. No one bothered to ask. No one bothered to investigate. 

They were on holiday in Mae Sot for the weekend.  The police arrive at the bangkok address. As soon as the owners found out they drove to Bangkok and handed themselves into police at the station by 4 pm. same day. No mention of that in the press is there? They were released on bail today. No press were present? They went into remand immediately for the weekend to clear their names. 

The police were asked by their lawyer to wait for them and they will open the house and doors. But the police would not wait and the police had to break them down with cameras rolling.

All the Burmese workers are legally working in Thailand with proper documents. Only one could speak any Thai.

Ok so there are other sub plots here and other stories. But the Anotai 74 Nawamin story is one of police believing a rumour issuing a warrant with no proper investigation and slurring the name of someone with no basis and no explanation. It is also a story of incompetent Thai press who believe any piece of rubbish fed to them.  So when you read any story they write dont believe it unquestioningly.

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 minutes ago, gregk0543 said:

 It is also a story of incompetent Thai press who believe any piece of rubbish fed to them.  So when you read any story they write dont believe it unquestioningly.

Thai news media crime reporting is RARELY anything other than repeating whatever line/information is fed to them by the police or other authorities -- regardless of how ever one-sided or factually flawed it may be.

For regular crime news, there's almost never any effort by the reporters to verify/confirm/fact-check any of the details they receive from the police. When was the last time you ever read a Thai crime news report where there were direct quotes or accounts from regular people who witnessed the events occurring?

And based on Thai journalists' actual reporting, it would seem the reporters often fail to even ask the most obvious questions that even a dimwit would see staring them in the face when given particular story by the police.

Like in this instance, was anyone actually arrested, and if so, who and for what?

[SOTIRIOS]

....this appears to be everywhere.....

....like 4th stage cancer........