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Watana loses appeal in housing graft case
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/03/2022
» Former Pheu Thai heavyweight Watana Muangsook lost his appeal on Friday as a panel of judges decided to uphold a guilty ruling over his role in irregularities in a low-cost housing project and stood by the prison term of 99 years he was handed earlier.
Pheu Thai's Watana faces 50 years in prison
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/09/2020
» Key Pheu Thai Party member Watana Muangsook will spend the next 50 years in prison after the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions found him guilty over his role in irregularities in a low-cost housing project.
Red shirts confess, punishment on ice
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/11/2019
» The Supreme Court in Pattaya on Thursday deferred a decision on the punishment for three core red-shirt protesters after they made a last-minute confession.
Red shirts plead guilty to violence
News, Published on 28/09/2019
» Four red-shirt co-leaders have pleaded guilty for their roles in a violent 2007 protest outside the home of the late Privy Council president, Prem Tinsulanonda, apparently hoping the Supreme Court will give them clemency and a less severe punishment.
Karma will haunt corrupt until the end
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 14/09/2019
» The sight of former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom head down, listening to the Supreme Court ruling on his role in the fake government-to-government (G2G) rice deals contrasted sharply with that of the merriment of his former boss, Yingluck Shinawatra, sharing a sumptuous meal with her brother and fugitive former prime minister, Thaksin, and his youngest daughter.
Check his credentials
News, Postbag, Published on 14/09/2019
» Re: "Thamanat wins PM's backing", (BP, Sept 11). As a reformist, Prime Minister Pra-yut Chan-o-cha should quickly verify Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Capt Thamanat Prompow's claims that he didn't (a) plead guilty to charges of drug trafficking in Australia and (b) didn't serve a four-year jail sentence for his crime, thus disqualifying him from office.
Court upholds jail for red-shirt protesters
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/09/2019
» The Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the two lower courts yesterday, sentencing red-shirt member Arisman Pongruangrong and 11 others to four years in prison over the riot that shut down the 2009 Asean Summit in Pattaya.
UDD agrees to arson payout
News, Post reporters, Published on 27/08/2019
» Leaders of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) say they will respect a Supreme Court ruling that they must pay an estimated 30 million baht in damages over the 2010 red-shirt protest in central Bangkok.
Red-shirt trio to pay B19m in damages
News, Post reporters, Published on 26/08/2019
» Red-shirt co-leaders Jatuporn Prompan, Nattawut Saikuar and Arisman Pongruangrong have been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay damages worth 19 million baht plus interest caused by an arson attack at a building in Bangkok during the red shirt protest in 2010, according to Democrat Party spokesman Rames Ratanachaweng.
Arisman released on B5m conditional bail
News, Published on 25/08/2018
» The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions yesterday allowed the temporary, conditional release on B5m bail of red-shirt leader Arisman Pongruangrong.