Boonsong tries second time for bail 

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The legal team of former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom has applied a second time for their client to get bail while awaiting the outcome of his appeal of his conviction for corruption in the controversial rice-pledging scheme.

 

The lawyers on Wednesday evening filed a request with the Supreme Court’’ Criminal Division for Political Office Holders to temporarily release Boonsong. The court had not ruled on the request as of press time.

 

Boonsong’s lawyer Narin Somnuek made the first bail attempt last Friday shortly after Boonsong was sentenced to a 42-year jail term. The court turned down bail, reasoning that Boonsong was a high flight risk if released on bail, given his lengthy sentence.

 

The former government minister was first detained at Bangkok Remand Prison after being convicted, then moved to Klong Prem Central Prison. He has a history of high blood pressure, and suffers from Boon chronic sinusitis and allergies. He has had to visit prison doctors, said Narin.

 

Narin is expecting to visit Boonsong this afternoon.

 

Boonsong, who received the harshest sentence among those sentenced, was convicted for his leadership role in creating four fake government-to-government rice export deals.

 

The scam resulted in Bt16-billion of financial damage to the state. He is also subject to making reparations worth around Bt1.7 billion.

 

Prior to his sentence, Boonsong said that he planned to seek bail and appeal to the Supreme Court within 30 days after the verdict as allowed by the 2017 constitution as well as seeking for bail granting.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30325399

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-31

 

Keep him locked for the rest of his life. He can thank Thaksin and Lingluck for the nice hotel. LOL.

 

Must be difficult for him to figure out whether he's safer in prison or out on bail - given that "friendly little reminder" from his former PTP colleague to keep his gob shut or else. 

No Reason for Bail. He was also not the one in the group that received the longest sentence. There was an executive of a Thai Rice Trading firm that was sentenced

to 48 years.

 

He can appeal his case just as easily from where he is now, as the lawyers do all of the work anyway. Considering his sentence, he should be viewed as an extreme flight risk.

 

This is a landmark case, that should be a serious deterrent to future politicians, to let them know that there can be consequences, if you cross the line.

Murders and rapists get less. 

It's a sad case. 

Yes, deny bail while he fights the excessive sentence.

Or possibly, he will pay for bail and then join the marathon club and run.

On 31/08/2017 at 5:46 PM, NoBrainer said:

No Reason for Bail. He was also not the one in the group that received the longest sentence. There was an executive of a Thai Rice Trading firm that was sentenced

to 48 years.

 

He can appeal his case just as easily from where he is now, as the lawyers do all of the work anyway. Considering his sentence, he should be viewed as an extreme flight risk.

 

This is a landmark case, that should be a serious deterrent to future politicians, to let them know that there can be consequences, if you cross the line.

The severity of the sentence will not be equally distributed though, It's sending a message to anyone who opposes the Junta.  Suthep and Abhisit for example. If anyone ever needed banging up for 42 years its Suthep, divisive, elitest, murdering, lying piece of shit