Arrest warrant issued for former lawyer in alleged Bt4m cheating case

By Jessada Chantharak 
The Nation

 

 

Arrest warrants have been issued for disqualified lawyer Pisit Sammalert and two accomplices over their alleged roles in cheating a 14-year-old road-accident victim out of Bt4 million compensation, Bangkok City police chief Lt-General Sanit Mahathavorn said on Wednesday.

 

The Taling Chan Court issued the arrest warrants on Tuesday for Pisit and two women identified as Pornpaveen Chukaew and Thitapa or Pattharawadee Sawasdee, Sanit said. 

 

Pasit and Pornpaveen were accused of forging and using forged document to cheat Pasit's pro-bono client Porntip Chantharat, 44, and her wheelchair-bound 14-year-old daughter Pattarada “Beam” Kaewpong out of Bt4 million compensation following a 2005 road accident. Thitapa was accused of aiding and abetting the wrongdoing. 

 

A truck crashed into a pickup carrying Porntip’s family, killing her husband. Porntip and Pattarada were seriously injured. Spinal injuries sustained in the accident force Pattarada to use a wheelchair. 

 

The Lawyers Council of Thailand last week stripped Pisit’s name from its list of qualified practitioners on the grounds that he’d been declared insolvent following the news he allegedly cheated the family.

 

Porntip had claimed that, after a court ordered the truck's owner to pay her family the compensation, Pisit, their lawyer, persuaded her to sign papers authorising him to handle all related matters, including collecting her monthly compensation payments, as a convenience to her. 

 

She ended up receiving just only Bt200,000. 

 

She lodged a complaint against the lawyer in 2015, but said he persuaded her to withdraw it by promising to give her Bt3 million, a promise he allegedly has not kept.

 

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And of course he has been given enough time to escape while all the bullshit has been going on when he should have been arrested right at the start !

good luck trying to get any of it back, will all be long gone or stashed away, lawyers council should re pay due to their pathetic decision to let him continue practicing after bankruptcy, what a joke

 

Seems  quite a popular thing to issue these arrest warrants.

One day, hopefully, they may get round to actually utilising them !

Announcing that an arrest warrant has been issued is one thing.

Acting on it is another thing, shouting about an arrest warrant has been issued is just giving him time to leg it.

How can anyone wake up in the morning and look at themselves after doing that to another person?

 

It must be the power of delusion. This guy probably thinks he's done no wrong. Scary. 

4 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

How can anyone wake up in the morning and look at themselves after doing that to another person?

 

It must be the power of delusion. This guy probably thinks he's done no wrong. Scary. 

seems lack of respect for law and order is the norm here; parents and grandparents raising kids just perpetuate generations old same lack of respect; school helps not at all; the result is the society you see

10 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

How can anyone wake up in the morning and look at themselves after doing that to another person?

 

It must be the power of delusion. This guy probably thinks he's done no wrong. Scary. 

 

It is not the power of delusion, it is emblematic of Thai society and Thai leadership going back decades. The guy may well think he has done nothing wrong because he is following a well-worn path.

 

If you look back at Thailand over the decades, the leadership of the country has set a moral example that crime pays, the goal in life should be to accumulate enough money or influence so that laws aren't a concern anymore, and that you can actually get away with crap like this.

 

Look at Thai political leadership going back to the reformation in 1932, and what are the lessons? Might makes right from the military. On the civilian side, various PMs and cabinet members have essentially done what they wanted with no real penalty. I won't try to detail all the examples, but it didn't begin or end with Thaksin (the poster boy).

 

In business, I would say look at the case of the executives/board members recently convicted of insider trading who kept their jobs. They were already fabulously wealthy, but took more and got away with it.

 

In sport, does the name Vanessa Mae ring a bell?

 

In entertainment, how many times have you seen a celebrity get caught for something, only the next day to be fronting some BS charity? And continuing on?

 

Every time I see a story about a taxi driver doing some thing bad, a few days later there is a story of a "good-hearted' taxi driver returning someone's money.

 

I could go on, but I think the point is made.The lesson of Thailand is that you CAN steal from a disabled girl.

 

Hell of a thing, ain't it?

 

Seems he's some form previously with the mugshot....

Lawyers in Thailand are somewhat of a joke....it can be extremely difficult to find a good one!

give the guy a break, he is probably just confused as to which police station to hand himself into.

Good!!!!! If the story is true this scumbag needs to

be in jail and repay the family every Baht with interest!!!!

Seems he's some form previously with the mugshot....
Lawyers in Thailand are somewhat of a joke....it can be extremely difficult to find a good one!

It's not a mugshot, it's from the ID card registry.

14 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

And of course he has been given enough time to escape while all the bullshit has been going on when he should have been arrested right at the start !

Giving the alleged scum time to escape is par for the course here.  I sometimes think it's done on purpose so they don't have to arrest somebody who has influence on the outcome of the case; too much hassle all round.

37 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

It's not a mugshot, it's from the ID card registry.

commonly referred to as a  mug shot   try not to be so picky 

15 hours ago, rkidlad said:

How can anyone wake up in the morning and look at themselves after doing that to another person?

 

It must be the power of delusion. This guy probably thinks he's done no wrong. Scary. 

He's a Lawyer,I think that would explain it all.

regards Worgeordie

I hope the Police actively go looking for the creep,and dont just

issue a request that he report to the station at his earliest convenience,

which is common here.

regards Worgeordie

18 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

And of course he has been given enough time to escape while all the bullshit has been going on when he should have been arrested right at the start !

and what is 4m Baht in this country of cheaters....?

Great to see the RTP are quick off the mark again? 

When I opened the thread I was hoping this was going to be about the rip off lawyer in Phuket who scammed the Irish guy.

 

Good luck to the girl involved in this case, the cynic in me thinks she'll need it.

21 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

 

It is not the power of delusion, it is emblematic of Thai society and Thai leadership going back decades. The guy may well think he has done nothing wrong because he is following a well-worn path.

 

If you look back at Thailand over the decades, the leadership of the country has set a moral example that crime pays, the goal in life should be to accumulate enough money or influence so that laws aren't a concern anymore, and that you can actually get away with crap like this.

 

Look at Thai political leadership going back to the reformation in 1932, and what are the lessons? Might makes right from the military. On the civilian side, various PMs and cabinet members have essentially done what they wanted with no real penalty. I won't try to detail all the examples, but it didn't begin or end with Thaksin (the poster boy).

 

In business, I would say look at the case of the executives/board members recently convicted of insider trading who kept their jobs. They were already fabulously wealthy, but took more and got away with it.

 

In sport, does the name Vanessa Mae ring a bell?

 

In entertainment, how many times have you seen a celebrity get caught for something, only the next day to be fronting some BS charity? And continuing on?

 

Every time I see a story about a taxi driver doing some thing bad, a few days later there is a story of a "good-hearted' taxi driver returning someone's money.

 

I could go on, but I think the point is made.The lesson of Thailand is that you CAN steal from a disabled girl.

 

Hell of a thing, ain't it?

 

Vanessa Mae was a Hot, Hot, Hot Violin Player.............who are you on about??  source please....Tks