THE Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases today (May 27) sentenced a former chairman and a commissioner of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to three years’ imprisonment each for concealing investigation documents regarding Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan’s possession of luxury watches upon assuming the position of acting prime minister, Naewna newspaper and PPTVHD36 said.
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Paetongtarn shares photo of Thaksin in prison uniform and cropped hair
FORMER prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra today (Nov. 27) shared a photo of her father de facto Pheu Thai boss-turn-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra taken during a family visit which Klong Prem Central Prison is allowing from Nov. 24 to Dec. 1 to mark the New Year festival, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon. In this photo Thaksin
Read moreThaksin to teach English in prison instead of ‘overseeing’ sewer conduits clearance
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra might probably be assigned to teach English to fellow inmates whilst serving his one-year term in prison, Corrections Department director-general Prawut Wongsrinil confirmed today (Oct.10). Given his old age, the father of court-deposed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra will practically not be given any
Read moreThaksin could possibly be imprisoned beyond one-year term
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra could possibly be imprisoned for longer than a year, given an additional lawsuit which might probably be filed against him pertaining to an alleged conspiracy over his thinly-veiled fakeout at Police Hospital over the last couple of years, according to a former senior
Read moreThaksin to meet a psychologist as daughters along with their husbands visit
DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra who has been in jail since Sep. 9 to serve a one-year sentence is scheduled to meet a psychologist while his daughters accompanied by their husbands visited him this morning (Sep. 18), Amarin TV said. The billionaire former prime minister was ordered back to jail by the
Read morePolice start investigating two doctors for helping Thaksin
A POLICE fact-finding committee has started investigating two doctors suspended for assisting de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra stay for six months in a Police Hospital suite instead of prison to serve out a curtailed one-year jail term until he was released on parole early last year, TV Channel 7 said this evening
Read moreSupreme Court sends Thaksin back to jail for one year
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra was today (Sep.9) ordered by court to be sent back to jail for a one-year time after he had quietly staged a six-month-long escapade at Police Hospital in spite of the law. The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons
Read moreUrgent: Supreme Court orders Thaksin back to jail for one year
THE Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions this morning (Sep. 9) passed a verdict returning de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to jail and serve out the one-year sentence he had received on charges of perpetrating a few counts of misconduct during his previous premiership over
Read moreBhumjaithai MP gets jail in Khon Kaen cooperative graft case
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI MP Ekarat Changlao has been today (April 17) sentenced by court to multiple terms in prison on charges of embezzlement and forged documentation pertaining to finances of the Khon Kaen Teachers Savings Cooperative. The Khon Kaen Provincial Court today ruled the Bhumjaithai MP of the northeastern province guilty of
Read moreMinister to probe Joe Ferrari being found hanged in prison
JUSTICE Minister Thavi Sodsong said an investigation of the death of Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka Superintendent Joe Ferrari, who had been jailed for life for intentionally torturing a drug suspect to death with two plastic bags and was found hanged at Klong Prem Central Prison would be undertaken, Thai Rath newspaper said today
Read more1 dead, 12 injured in Pattani prison New Year fight
A NEW YEAR’S DAY futsal match at Pattani Central Prison today (Jan. 1) turned violent leading to one inmate being killed and 12 others injured with one in critical condition, Amarin TV said. Pol. Col. Jeffrey Sailamanakul, superintendent of Pattani City police station, immediately sent a police team to the prison upon being alerted
Read moreFresh bid hatched to have Thaksin returned to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE SUPREME COURT will be formally asked to pass a retroactive ruling to return de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to prison after he had practically failed to serve a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail term last year. Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak will shortly petition Supreme Court judges in
Read moreThai dissident jailed for three years over anti-monarchy speech
By AFP and published by CNA A THAI court today (Sep. 13) sentenced one of the kingdom’s leading pro-democracy activists to three years in prison for defaming the monarchy, a human rights lawyers’ group said. Jatupat “Pai Dao Din” Boonpattararaksa was found guilty of violating Thailand’s royal defamation law, or Section 112 of the
Read moreSpanish actor’s son jailed for life for grisly island murder
By AFP and published by CNA Koh Samui – A Thai court today (Aug. 29) jailed a famous Spanish actor’s son for life for the grisly murder of a Colombian plastic surgeon on Koh Phangan, in a lurid case that has gripped Spain. Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a 30-year-old chef, was found guilty of the
Read moreArtist gets 8 months for spray-painting temple wall
AN ARTIST from Khon Kaen who spray-painted an anarchist symbol and the number 112 on a wall of the Temple of Emerald Buddha then crossed it out in March last year was today (July 4) sentenced to eight months in jail without parole, Amarin TV said this afternoon. Mr. Sutthawee Soikham, or Bang Aern,
Read moreThaksin may be immediately put in jail if denied release on bail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra may be immediately thrown in jail if the Criminal Court denies him release on bail tomorrow (June 18), confirmed Corrections Department director-general Sahakarn Petchnarin today. Charged with a violation of the lese majeste law, also known as Section 112 of the Criminal Code,
Read moreSinger given four years in jail in lese majeste case
THE CRIMINAL Court on Ratchadapisek road handed Mr. Chaiamorn Kaewwiboonpan, a popular singer who goes by the professional name of Ammy the Bottom Blues, four years in jail without parole on charges of violating the lese majeste law, or Section 112 of the Criminal Code, arson under Section 217 and Computer Crime Act B.E.
Read moreThanathorn’s brother given jail sentence for attempted payoff
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SAKULTHORN JUANGROONGRUANGKIT, brother of Progressive Movement leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, was today (May 20) handed a six-month jail sentence due to attempted bribery charges. The Criminal Court ruled Sakulthorn, CEO of Real Asset Development Co., was guilty of offering 20 million baht in kickback cash to government officials and brokers in
Read moreAnon gets 2 years and 20 days in jail in lese majeste case
PROMINENT activist lawyer Anon Nampha has been sentenced to two years and 20 days in jail for violating Section 112 of the Criminal Code, known as the lese majeste law, the Emergency Decree, the Communicable Diseases Act and the Advertising Control Act over using an amplifier, Naewna newspaper said today (Apr. 29) This case
Read moreProtesters urge govt to return Thaksin to jail
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A DOZEN POLITICAL activists today (Oct.31) pressed the government to return de facto Pheu Thai boss/”sickly” inmate Thaksin Shinawatra from hospital to jail. The street protesters led by the so-called Students’ & People’s Network For Thailand Reform peacefully gathered outside Government House calling on the Pheu Thai-led government to take
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