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11 total arrest warrants for Mae Hong Son sex scandal
By The Nation

 

 

Police criticised over lie detector test administered to teenage victim of ring

 

BANGKOK: -- ARREST WARRANTS have been issued for 11 people – four policemen who have been dismissed from the civil service and seven civilians – implicated in the Mae Hong Son coerced-prostitution ring scandal.

 

Deputy police spokesman Pol Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen said yesterday that national police chief General Chakthip Chaijinda instructed case investigators to gather evidence and prosecute those involved without exception.

 

Anti-Human Traffic Division (ATHD) inspector Pol Lt-Colonel Sitthinan Sitthikamjorn said yesterday before five civilian suspects were transported to Bangkok, that they still maintained their innocence and refused to implicate others. He said officers would be applying for more arrest warrants soon.

 

AHTD officers yesterday brought five suspects, including four women, for interrogation at the Royal Thai Police (RTP) head office in Bangkok. 

 

Deputy national police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul attended the interrogation.

 

During a press conference yesterday, the former police informant said no other people were involved in the ring and the five civilians had supplied 20 girls to customers.

 

A 43-year-old former police informant, who exposed the prostitution ring in the search for her victimised teenage daughter, was also brought in to identify suspects.

 

Meanwhile yesterday, applications for arrest warrants filed for a police corporal in Provincial Police Region 5, a police lieutenant colonel in the Border Patrol Police Bureau and a public school teacher were dismissed. 

 

Mae Hong Son provincial court said the men – accused of paying for sex services from the prostitution ring – were civil servants with known addresses and were not a flight risk. 

 

In denying the warrants, the court asked police investigators to issue summonses for the three men instead, a source at the RTP said. 

 

Arrest warrant applications were filed for three other local policemen on April 29 relating to the same case. The court also dismissed recommended the issuance of summonses on the same grounds.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30314160

 

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[Somtamnication]

Too many big wigs. It won't happen.

[colinneil]

Mae hong son provincial court said the men were civil servants, with well known addresses and not a flight risk.

Sounds like the old pals network at work here.

Court refusing to issue arrest warrants, it stinks.

Too many high ranking public figures involved.

[darksidedog]

10 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Mae hong son provincial court said the men were civil servants, with well known addresses and not a flight risk.

Sounds like the old pals network at work here.

Court refusing to issue arrest warrants, it stinks.

Too many high ranking public figures involved.

Not enough high ranking public figures arrested though. In fact it seems to be about zero, but that is who was headlines in the case when it broke.

For a moment it looked like these stinking pervs were going to receive justice, but now it seems very apparent hush money has been spread and the cover up, nailing a few lowly expendables, has begun.

[tracker1]

The arrest warrants will be issued to the girls for prostitution ! easy fixed. Naughty Girls selling their services to high ranking officials

 

[klauskunkel]

recap:

4 police officers with arrest warrants

another 5 police officers with no arrest warrants

so far a total of 9 police officers implicated...

[Ulic]

Are these the sacrificial lambs.

[clockman]

Justice is a distant bell, rarely heard in Thailand!

[Golden Triangle]

It'll go the same way as any crime involving senior members of Thai society, the little people will be arrested and jailed and the high ups will walk away scot free.

 

Disgusting state of affairs. 

[impulse]

6 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

It'll go the same way as any crime involving senior members of Thai society, the little people will be arrested and jailed and the high ups will walk away scot free.

 

You left out the part about re-opening in a new location next week.

[Pattaya28]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

without exception

Heard this comment before.

Has "zero" meaning.

Exceptions have already been made public.

[12DrinkMore]

Just when you thought it had reached rock bottom, the Thais manage to come out with something even worse.

 

Children need to be protected from those supposed to protect them.

 

Assuming those are the kids involved in the Police Paedophile "Children for Sale" club, then <deleted> are they doing surrounded by 20 or so officers from the same mob that abused them and the press allowed to photograph?

 

If the police get moved to one of those inactive posts, please can I have the pleasure of ramming it full length up their ar5e5?

[impulse]

1 hour ago, 12DrinkMore said:

Just when you thought it had reached rock bottom, the Thais manage to come out with something even worse.

 

Children need to be protected from those supposed to protect them.

 

As despicable as this case is, at least it appears that all the victims survived.  So it comes close, but certainly doesn't reach a bottom lower than finding mass graves of Rohingya and other human trafficking victims whose families couldn't pay the ransom(s).  Which, as I recall, only resulted in a few cops sent to inactive positions before the 30 minute news cycle left it behind.

 

So I'm not expecting any big crackdown here, either.  They'll be opened up in a new (probably even nicer) location across town as soon as the heat is off.  Probably offering discounts to reward their customers for their loyalty through these hard times.

 

[macksview]

why do i bluddy bother?

the same bent rubbish time after time, this time young 'hill billy girls' put on show, when they are the victims.

i await the parents etc, knowlingly sold them into slavery comments, but it is not about that  to me, it is the sham of thai law and society.

 

young girls, most probably sitting in a roomfull of acquaintences of their 'customers',  shown in the media, and as a basically honest man, i see the evil thai machine at work.

 

corrupt bustards.

[12DrinkMore]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

 

As despicable as this case is, at least it appears that all the victims survived.  So it comes close, but certainly doesn't reach a bottom lower than finding mass graves of Rohingya and other human trafficking victims whose families couldn't pay the ransom(s).  Which, as I recall, only resulted in a few cops sent to inactive positions before the 30 minute news cycle left it behind.

 

So I'm not expecting any big crackdown here, either.  They'll be opened up in a new (probably even nicer) location across town as soon as the heat is off.  Probably offering discounts to reward their customers for their loyalty through these hard times.

 

Yes, I suppose they should be thankful that as "inconveniences" they were not marched off into the jungle and disposed of.

 

[USPatriot]

So the local party spot is the police station I wonder if they server drinks.

 

Unfortunately I doubt much will happen to the police or anyone else

[Stargeezr]

So these 11 arethe scape goats, while the other dozen higher ups will all not get investigated or arrested as they

should have been, pretty sad cover up, and shameful too.

It would be a nice day to see the corruption in Thailand really get attacked, and to see some of the filthy rich

high ups get tossed into prison.

Geezer

[anon4546543]

57 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

So these 11 arethe scape goats, while the other dozen higher ups will all not get investigated or arrested as they

should have been, pretty sad cover up, and shameful too.

It would be a nice day to see the corruption in Thailand really get attacked, and to see some of the filthy rich

high ups get tossed into prison.

Geezer

Yes, it happens the world over. Sad but not just Thailand. Such is the life democracy has made for us

[12DrinkMore]

9 hours ago, spiderorchid said:

Yes, it happens the world over. Sad but not just Thailand. Such is the life democracy has made for us

 

Thailand is an oligarchy.

 

It was never a democracy in anything but name.

 

 

[sandemara]

Little fish.