Justice ministry accepts "first ever case" of Isan man who went to jail in place of another

 

Image: Thai News Agency

 

The justice ministry yesterday accepted the case of the man who's wife claims he was conned into serving a prison sentence for an investor in a big illegal wood case.

The ministry said it was the first case of its kind where someone had admitted to serving time for another person.

The case relates to a man called Chuannarong Khampan who is currently in jail. He admits to having taken the rap for an influential investor in the case of an illegal consignment of blackwood being processed at a factory in Mukdahan in the northeast of Thailand.

He was paid 100,000 baht of an agreed 200,000 baht and was told by a policeman referred to by the nickname of "Yao" that he would only have to serve 4 months.

But it turned out the blackwood was a huge load - a total of 800 trunks. Chuannarong was given not four months as agreed but 8 years and 6 months reduced by half because he admitted the crime that, of course, he had not even done.

Yesterday human rights lawyer Songkan Achariyasap presented a complaint on behalf of Mrs Wikun Phochai from Mukdahan who is the wife of Chuannarong. He has already spent five months in prison.

She claims he was conned into serving time for the investor though she accepts that they broke the law and that they are willing to accept the consequences for what they did.

 

Source: Thai News Agency

 

 

 

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Son nam na

4 months porridge @ 25 k a month OK. 4 years porridge @ 2k not OK. Hi so's don't do porridge.

Wow, I think all those influential Thais and their brats, must be scrapping for their closely related servant scapegoats by now......

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

willing to accept the consequences for what they did

Then serve the sentence.

And next time remember that a policeman is not a judge or prosecutor.

Those at the top in most Societies never pay for their crimes. It is called trickle down and if you are at the bottom you are the Serf who does the lumber

Unnamed influential investor and policeman with a nickname....these human rights lawyers better be really good. 

The first case but most definitely not the first or last time. 

It would appear that the policeman probably had seen or done the same before, as this is rumored to be a common occurance in this country.  If the judge was changed, with the current spotlight on illegal logging, plus the jail time for judicial corruption, produced the longer sentence, plus he was only paid half of what he was promised, he got shafted big time so he wants more heads to roll.

 

Hope he lives to see justice served as the law intended not as some corrupt official wants it to serve themself, personally.

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

He was paid 100,000 baht of an agreed 200,000 baht and was told by a policeman referred to by the nickname of "Yao" that he would only have to serve 4 months.

There is always police involvement present, in one capacity or other...

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The ministry said it was the first case of its kind where someone had admitted to serving time for another person.

Golly gee how could the police and the system have made such a terrible mistake. Arrest the other person and double his sentence. End of story. 

"...He was paid 100,000 baht of an agreed 200,000..." which (if not already) should now be confiscated as proceeds of crime !!! 

 

If the Justice Ministry accepts that he took the rap for someone else, then they will probably release him from prison and that's the end of it (for everyone, including the influential investor and the cop named "Yao").

 

Nothing fishy about that. 

 

2 hours ago, waldroj said:

"...He was paid 100,000 baht of an agreed 200,000..." which (if not already) should now be confiscated as proceeds of crime !!! 

 

If the Justice Ministry accepts that he took the rap for someone else, then they will probably release him from prison and that's the end of it (for everyone, including the influential investor and the cop named "Yao").

 

Nothing fishy about that. 

 

In this case the first shall never be last. 

Who knows how many more cases there were and are ..