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Siapo gets 20-year jail sentence

News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/12/2022

» The Criminal Court has sentenced self-professed gambler Siapo Po-arnon -- a popular internet figure who advised a House panel on gambling -- to 54 years in jail for luring people to gamble online, causing 1.7 billion baht in damages, and laundering money. However, it commuted the sentence to 20 years, the maximum allowed by the Criminal Code.