By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF Pol.Gen. Surachate Hakparn, nicknamed Big Joke, yesterday (Feb.16) dismissed allegations that he had been involved in money-laundering and running a gambling website.
The well-known deputy police chief admitted that as many as eight police officers under his command had been accused of alleged involvement in the money-laundering with huge profits from the gambling website, named Minnie, but categorically denied he himself had been so involved as well.
However, some of those unnamed police officers suspected of involvement in the illegal online gambling had allegedly mentioned him as their mastermind.
But Pol.Gen. Surachate said he has been groundlessly accused in a conspiracy hatched up among high-ranking police officers to keep him out of a race for promotion as police chief.
Pol.Gen. Surachate said the alleged conspiracy was merely aimed at damaging his reputation and barring him from promotion whilst his house in Vibhavadi Road area of Bangkok had been earlier searched in a police raid which had found nothing illegal.
He said he would have been arrested for any wrongdoings or been dismissed from his bureaucratic position if he had ever done anything wrong whilst having been attached to Government House for two years during a previous government.
Without elaborating, the deputy police chief said he has never been charged for any crime and that he has remained undaunted by such a conspiracy hatched up against him.
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Deputy Police Chief Pol.Gen. Surachate Hakparn. Top photo: Thai Rath, Front Page photo: Matichon
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