Police gather evidence to search Yingluck’s house

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Police gather evidence to search Yingluck’s house

 

A photo of the gate at the house of fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, taken on Friday.

 

Police are still gathering evidence in order to seek a search warrant for the house of runaway former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a senior police official said on Saturday.

 

Metropolitan Police Area 4 chief Maj-General Nanthachat Supamongkol, who oversees Lat Phrao Police district where Yingluck’s house is located, said the search warrant was a sensitive issue so he needed to wait for his supervisor’s command.  

 

An arrest warrant was issued for Yingluck by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions on Friday after she failed to turn up for the verdict reading in the negligence case against her former government’s controversial rice-pledging scheme. The court postponed the verdict reading to September 27 and ordered the seizure of Yingluck’s Bt30-million bail.  

 

Yingluck is now “safe and sound” in Dubai, CNN reported last night, citing a high ranking Pheu Thai Party official Yingluck’s brother Thaksin, who is also a former prime minister and also toppled by a military coup, lives in Dubai and London in self-imposed exile to avoid abuse-of-power charges.

 

Nanthachat said he had ordered police forces to be dispatched to monitor her house and keep law and order.

 

So far, there was nothing happening at the property, he said. He added police had talked to Yingluck’s maids and housekeepers but they denied knowing anything. 

 

“We are sure we have not overlooked anything. We have emphasised to officers the need to strictly monitor the place and will do it for a while until the situation returns to normal,” he said. 

 

Yingluck’s house in Bangkok’s Bueng Kum District had been very quiet since the owner fled the country days before facing the verdict.  

 

Some media are still staking out the front of her house to report on any occurrences.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30324964

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-26

[Samui Bodoh]

4 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

“We are sure we have not overlooked anything.

 

Except Yingluck...

 

Unbelievable!

[boomerangutang]

it brought to mind....

 

When I was 16, I secretly stayed at my girlfriend's room one morning, after she had gone to school. Her stepfather knocked on the bedroom door, calling her name. No answer. I quickly hid behind her dresser, standing up, with a thin gauze window drape between my upper body and the room.  The stepfather snuck in, went to the dresser, opened the top two drawers, and proceeded to go through the girl's panties and bras, sniffing each in turn.   I was two feet away, watching the whole thing - not daring to even breathe - afraid I would give myself away.  The stepfather was an army drill sargeant and had never met me.  If he had noticed or found me there at that time, he probably would have beat me to a pulp.

 

Am not sayin' Thai cops are gonna go through Ms Yingluck's dainties, but........

[steven100]

of coarse the maid and housekeeper know nothing .....  

they were just going to keep working everyday as usual until next months salary didn't show up in their accounts ....  then they would ....

' up to you '    mai pen rai .... 

[darksidedog]

They might as well do everything properly and by the book. Given the situation it's not as though there is any rush.

[steven100]

1 minute ago, boomerangutang said:

it brought to mind....

 

When I was 16, I secretly stayed at my girlfriend's room one morning, after she had gone to school. Her stepfather knocked on the bedroom door, calling her name. No answer. I quickly hid behind her dresser, standing up, with a thin gauze window drape between my upper body and the room.  The stepfather snuck in, went to the dresser, opened the top two drawers, and proceeded to go through the girl's panties and bras, sniffing each in turn.   I was two feet away, watching the whole thing - not daring to even breathe - afraid I would give myself away.  The stepfather was an army drill sargeant and had never met me.  If he had noticed or found me there at that time, he probably would have beat me to a pulp.

 

Am not sayin' Thai cops are gonna go through Ms Yingluck's dainties, but........

[Thaiwrath]

When they carry out a search, she will be watching it all on her phone via her CCTV, laughing her tits off !

[boomerangutang]

It gives new meaning to the expression, "he cleaned her clock."

[ovi1kanobi]

3 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

They might as well do everything properly and by the book. Given the situation it's not as though there is any rush.

They may find her body there, if she decided to off herself. Instead of lose face for a lengthy jail sentence.

[iReason]

12 minutes ago, ovi1kanobi said:

They may find her body there, if she decided to off herself. Instead of lose face for a lengthy jail sentence.

 

32 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

So far, there was nothing happening at the property, he said. He added police had talked to Yingluck’s maids and housekeepers but they denied knowing anything.

[docshock13]

What exactly are they hoping to find? Nazi gold? The Holy Grail? She has already been found guilty of negligence and malfeasance and the trial is over. More evidence isn't going to make her more guilty. 

And I am fairly certain given the planning/negotiations that went into her "escape," she would have covered her tracks in terms of ID'ing those that facilitated her flight. 

 

[LannaGuy]

6 minutes ago, docshock13 said:

What exactly are they hoping to find? Nazi gold? The Holy Grail? She has already been found guilty of negligence and malfeasance and the trial is over. More evidence isn't going to make her more guilty. 

And I am fairly certain given the planning/negotiations that went into her "escape," she would have covered her tracks in terms of ID'ing those that facilitated her flight. 

 

No she hasn't. Of course there is the high probability that she will be found guilty on 27th Sept but are you suggesting the verdict is already known?  outrageous as if the Junta would know the result!

Edited August 26, 2017 by LannaGuy

[baboon]

10 minutes ago, docshock13 said:

What exactly are they hoping to find? Nazi gold? The Holy Grail? She has already been found guilty of negligence and malfeasance and the trial is over. More evidence isn't going to make her more guilty. 

And I am fairly certain given the planning/negotiations that went into her "escape," she would have covered her tracks in terms of ID'ing those that facilitated her flight. 

 

Coins down the back of the sofa. That way they can say they have seized more assets...

[docshock13]

4 minutes ago, LannaGuy said:

No she hasn't. Of course there is the high probability that she will be found guilty on 27th Sept but are you suggesting the verdict is already known?  outrageous as if the Junta would know the result!

Oops. My mistake. You are correct. The verdict is pending. But given the other verdicts and sentences handed down... 

[Cadbury]

25 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

They might as well do everything properly and by the book. Given the situation it's not as though there is any rush.

No more a rush than with Red Bull Boy. If form is anything then sometime over the next four years they will probably get around to requesting Interpol to issue a completely harmless Blue Notice.

[Justgrazing]

Have they got any drones .? Stand outside the Mansion then fly the drones in relaying live pic's back out .. Look proper professional then they would .. 

[Thechook]

15 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

No more a rush than with Red Bull Boy. If form is anything then sometime over the next four years they will probably get around to requesting Interpol to issue a completely harmless Blue Notice.

Have they located the monk yet and they had 10,000 troops surrounding the temple and he still slipped through

Edited August 26, 2017 by Thechook

[harada]

All enquiries to Shinawatra Towers Dubai, thank you.

[binjalin]

36 minutes ago, docshock13 said:

Oops. My mistake. You are correct. The verdict is pending. But given the other verdicts and sentences handed down... 

Haha just teasing and making a point. Heaven forbid anyone would presume to know the result.

 

Innocent until proven guilty M'Lud

 

PS (except in Thailand where it's easier as the colour of your shirt indicates your guilt).

[Jeremy50]

1 hour ago, boomerangutang said:

it brought to mind....

 

When I was 16, I secretly stayed at my girlfriend's room one morning, after she had gone to school. Her stepfather knocked on the bedroom door, calling her name. No answer. I quickly hid behind her dresser, standing up, with a thin gauze window drape between my upper body and the room.  The stepfather snuck in, went to the dresser, opened the top two drawers, and proceeded to go through the girl's panties and bras, sniffing each in turn.   I was two feet away, watching the whole thing - not daring to even breathe - afraid I would give myself away.  The stepfather was an army drill sargeant and had never met me.  If he had noticed or found me there at that time, he probably would have beat me to a pulp.

 

Am not sayin' Thai cops are gonna go through Ms Yingluck's dainties, but........

How nasty, perving on his own daughter. Families are often a den of vice hiding behind a pretence of perfection.  Read Roth's  'Sabbath's Theatre' There is a similar scene, though written with humour. 

[boomerangutang]

In the US, a judge-approved search warrant would be needed to search Ms Yingluck's premises, and they're not easy to get, and often targeted - specifying what can be looked for, and what not.

From the little bit I know about the case against Yingluck, it seems that there would be zero grounds for a search warrant.  What would she have in her house which is directly relevant to the rice purchase issue?   

If authorities go rummaging through her house, it would likely be a cherry picking expedition - and it wouldn't surprise anyone if things are later found to be missing.  How hard would it be to put pearl earrings in a pocket, for example?

 

[Dave67]

searching for evidence, read a newspaper

[Dave67]

SHE'S IN DUBAI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bristolgeoff]

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the house will be spotless nothing left of value in it.the house maids or cleaners  will have done a job on it.they will be paid extra a lot extra to say I no nothing.also why need a warrant they know she is gone and so a judge will sign it straight away.u be lucky to find dust or fingerprints anywhere

[drayger]

Maybe their looking for the star trek type teleportation machines that rich Thai's seem to have installed in their homes

[Somtamnication]

LOL. What a joke. 

[tomwct]

I thought it was now the governments house! Doesn't she owe $1.1 Billion US? Why do they need a warrant?

Amazing Thailand!

[LannaGuy]

2 minutes ago, tomwct said:

I thought it was now the governments house! Doesn't she owe $1.1 Billion US? Why do they need a warrant?

Amazing Thailand!

She has not been found guilty of anything yet.

Amazing TVF posters!

[tomwct]

14 minutes ago, LannaGuy said:

She has not been found guilty of anything yet.

Amazing TVF posters!

Yes, this legal system  is kind of a joke here! They need some politicians who aren't corrupt to spend time re-writing some laws that make sense, but their first priority is to fill there pockets with money. That's Thai Culture! I guess we'll wait for the Guilty Verdict at the end of September, but go ahead and seal the house off!

Edited August 26, 2017 by tomwct

[LannaGuy]