Chai Bunnag files new libel suit against NMG

THE NATION

 

Chai

 

BANGKOK: -- CHAI BUNNAG has sued Nation Multimedia Group executives at the Criminal Court for alleged libel and violation of the Computer Crime Act, although public prosecutors dropped an earlier case against them.

 

On September 5, Chai petitioned with the court against Adisak Limprungpanatanakij, chief executive of Nation Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), and seven others, according to a source familiar with the matter.

NBC runs Nation TV and is part of the NMG, which also owns The Nation newspaper.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Chai-Bunnag-files-new-libel-suit-against-NMG-30296262.html

 

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Boy, oh boy! Thailand is truly the hub of the dummy-spits and vindictiveness over the application of "defamation"!

 

If he has reacted like this to the article from January 2015 (http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/DSI-summons-SEC-SET-officials-over-Solution-Corner-30251548.html), then he must be going ballistic over the one from last September (https://asianextractor.com/2015/09/19/epartment-of-special-investigation-dsi-has-filed-criminal-charges-against-chai-bunnag-and-11-accomplices-over-the-alleged-manipulation-of-solution-corner-1988-slc-shares-back-in-2010/) and this from January (http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/11-face-slc-stock-manipulation-charges/).

 

It must have been a slap in the face for Bunnag that, "...in their letter to police, the prosecutors...viewed that Adisak had made his comment honestly in his writing about the matter...".

 

So, it's going to be interesting to see if he gets another slap to that precious "face" from his latest foray against NMG, especially as Section 329, Clause 3 of the Criminal Code says that a person, in good faith, who expresses any opinion or a statement by way of fair comment on any person or thing subjected to public criticism, shall not be guilty of defamation.

 

An interesting take on the laughable Computer Crime Act is at https://www.seapa.org/computer-crime-act-misused-for-defamation-charges-say-experts/.

That's a rubbish "Blue Steel".