Police aiming at warrants to arrest Mae Hong Son governor and six others, Srivara says

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Police aiming at warrants to arrest Mae Hong Son governor and six others, Srivara says
By The Nation

 

 

MAE HONG SON: -- POLICE are looking at arrest warrants for Mae Hong Son governor Suebsak Iamwichan and six other suspects this month for allegedly buying sex from girls under 18 in a forced prostitution ring, deputy national police |chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said yesterday.

 

Nine police have been dismissed from civil service and seven civilians taken into custody in connection with the Mae Hong Son prostitution scandal. Srivara said police would further investigate an allegation that officials from a tambon administrative organisation in Nonthaburi also used the girls’ sex service on a field trip to Mae Hong Son. He said police had found information to confirm that officials on the trip “stayed in the area where the prostitution ring’s girls frequently went to provide sex services”.

 

A source at the Muang Mae Hong Son Municipality had revealed that 26 officials from Bang Yai in Nonthaburi visited the province in a field trip last September and stayed at the resort in question, which was often cited as the place where the girls were sent to provide sex services with officials.

 

Ministry team will go back to finish probe 

 

Several women who used to be in the prostitution ring said that when officials came for a visit from other provinces, they would be called in to provide sex services. They claimed that they had not wanted to go, as they wouldn’t be paid in full, but went because some local police had made threats to arrest them for prostitution if they refused.

 

Meanwhile, Interior Minister General Anupong Paochinda said a team led by a deputy permanent secretary would visit Mae Hong Son again soon to investigate officials’ alleged involvement in the case. He said a fact-finding probe against Suebsak had incomplete information so they would wait for the police inquiry result, because the |ministry had no capacity to examine evidence or remarks by people damaged by the controversy.

 

The prostitution scandal has drawn huge media coverage recently after a 43-year-old former police informant came forward to seek justice for her teenage daughter, who was allegedly lured into taking drugs and coerced into sex work. The mother has implicated Suebsak, who has denied any wrongdoing. Police and other agencies have since launched several investigations into the |scandal.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30314754

 

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[sebastion]

"Nine police have been dismissed from civil service and seven civilians taken into custody"

Police get a paid holiday and civilians get a dirty jail cell.
Typical.

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[Thechook]

Pssst Governor,  we are getting a warrant and will be around on Thursday after lunch.

[colinneil]

Come fly with me lets fly away.

The governor has been given plenty of time to disappear.

[Rhys]

YEAH... so F what... like anything substantial will take place... 

[AGareth2]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

They claimed that they had not wanted to go, as they wouldn’t be paid in full,

damn govt budgets

[darksidedog]

I will believe the arrest warrant for the Governor after it has been issued and he has been arrested, charged and jailed, not before.

[worgeordie]

Like Nike says, " Just do it ",

 

"that when officials came for a visit from other provinces, they would be called in to provide sex services."

probably the only reason officials bothered to come to a backwater like Mae Hong Son. 

regards worgeordie

[mikebell]

The times they are a-changing.  I can't remember ever reading of so many protected police and hi-sos being forced to face the music.  Or am I being a cock-eyed optimist?

[tomwct]

Finally they are going to arrest the Governor! The Thai People didn't let this one go into hiding!

[oldgent]

??? why are they looking at the bed.

[rkidlad]

7 hours ago, mikebell said:

The times they are a-changing.  I can't remember ever reading of so many protected police and hi-sos being forced to face the music.  Or am I being a cock-eyed optimist?

They are changing, but not because people in power changed anything. The people did. Social media is a powerful tool that can 'sometimes' be impossible to ignore. 

[jethro69]

7 hours ago, tomwct said:

Finally they are going to arrest the Governor! The Thai People didn't let this one go into hiding!

And if so, where will he spend his jail time? Executive suite in Oriental I guess.

[SABloke]

"Nine police have been dismissed from civil service and seven civilians taken into custody"

Police get a paid holiday and civilians get a dirty jail cell.
Typical.

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Also, the judge won't approve an arrest warrant citing the little known precedent that "if we know a (government) person's address then that person is not a flight risk and thus no warrant is needed"

[Si Thea01]

18 hours ago, oldgent said:

??? why are they looking at the bed.

 

For the envelopes.