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Provincial prosecutor held on bribery charges

  A PROSECUTOR in Nakhon Si Thammarat was arrested today (July 31) on the charges of taking a bribe from a man facing a land grab case just as the victim went to his office to give the second instalment of the payoff, TV Channel 7 said today (July 31). Mr. Niwatchai Gasemmongkol, secretary-general of […]

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Some senatorial candidates allegedly held money talks at hotels

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters SOME CONTESTANTS FOR senators have allegedly attended secret meetings at hotels where kickbacks in cash have been offered and negotiated, Election Commission Secretary-General Sawaeng Boonmee said today (June 26). Sawaeng did not name names or tell how many of the tempted electoral riggers there may have been operating in hush-hush […]

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Thanathorn’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 […]

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Chada’s son-in-law nabbed on bribery charges

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters A SON-IN-LAW OF Deputy Interior Minister Chada Thaiset was today (Oct.24) arrested on charges of demanding and receiving a kickback from a waterwork contractor in Uthai Thani, police said. Verachart Rassamee, the mayor of Talukdu municipality in Taptan district of Uthai Thani where Chada himself is a native, was alleged […]

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Chonburi police chief being transferred as extortion charges surface

  NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Damrongsak Kittipraphat is getting ready to transfer Chonburi Police Chief Pol. Maj. Gen. Kumpol Leelaprapaporn to the headquarters in Bangkok for an indefinite period after charges that he and nine other policemen extorted over 140 million baht from six online gambling website operators emerged, Matichon newspaper said this morning […]

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