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Bangkokgo - Political Bribery and corruption in Thailand
Chuwit Kamolvisit aka Davis Kamol (Thai: ªÙÇÔ·Âì ¡ÁÅÇÔÈÔÉ®ì, born August 29, 1961) is a Thai politician and, formerly, the country's biggest massage parlor owner is our choice for Governor of Bangkok With Thailand politics Thaksin Shinawatra was elected by a democratic election & deposed by a coup. Really he is legitimate as the PM of Thailand. In every other country apart from the likes of Mugabe's all elections are democratic. Therefore if one is elected then he is the winner until an election by the people changes this. Every further election in Thailand his PPP party has won. This means he (his Party) is really the legitimate party to run Thailand and this should not be changed by undemocratic processes eg. PAD etc. Think of your own countries and if the army took over your country then ask yourself. Thaksin has every right to persue a comeback as he has the right. As we have seen in Thailand there is no clear leader who can take over the country. Mr Thaksin Shinawatra was this man and could make a comeback into Thailand Politics as his family & friends basically run the show. He had charisma and was well liked and if anyone can get Thailand on the path back it was Thaksin Shinawatra. But, his corruption charges may be hard for many Thais to swollow & the billions he made for himself and his family may never be forgotten, especially as Thailand goes thru PAD opposition and the economy becomes transformed with rising unemployment.
2008 BRIBERY NEWS FROM THAILAND NEWS ON THE THAI POLITICAL FRONT. YOU CAN'T BEAT THESE GUYS--- THE NAME OF THE GAME IS MONEY & THE PRIZE IS POWER When the power of love overcomes the love of power THAILAND COURT nows its the PM Samark's turn
ASYLUM SETBACK
Thaksin lawyer files counter-charge against Veera WASSAYOS NGAMKHAM A lawyer for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has filed a counter-charge against Veera Somkwamkid, in response to the graft campaigner filing a complaint against Thaksin. The counter-charge was lodged with the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) by Udom Prongfa. Mr Veera lodged his complaint with the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) on Thursday, alleging lese majeste by Thaksin, The lawyer discounted Mr Veera's complaint and claimed the anti-corruption activist broke Article 12 of the Criminal Code because he lied to police when he took legal action against Thaksin. 'Mr Veera went ahead and filed the charge even after the Royal Thai Police Office had concluded Mr Thaksin had done nothing wrong,'' Mr Udom said. The lawyer presented police with evidence including news clippings which quoted Special Branch Police as saying Thaksin was in the clear over a speech. Special Branch Police said Thaksin's phone-in speech to supporters at Rajamangala stadium on Nov 1 did not constitute lese majeste. Mr Udom had been appointed by Viroj Pao-in, former MP for Ang Thong province, to take legal action against Mr Veera. Pol Lt-Gen Viroj acted on behalf of Thaksin. Thaksin told thousands of supporters at the stadium that only ''royal kindness or the power of the people'' could bring him home. Source Bangkok Post 9th Nov 2008
Boy Thai politics gets crazy but we have our eye on it!!!!!! Even I can figure dis out. Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej guilty of violating the constitution by hosting two cooking shows on commercial television and getting smoke money or is it tea money & not saying the right amount !!!! then Apirak is guilty with the Firs Truck scandel Thaksin now less likely to be sent home but may be the best bet to run Thailand as PM. Besides when he was in power the country was running good. It has deteriorated ever since. TRACKING FORMER PM A TOUGH TASK Revoking the UK visas of Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, which was confirmed by the Foreign Ministry yesterday, will add to the difficulties of bringing the former prime minister home to serve his jail term. Sirisak Tiyaphan, the director-general of the Office of the Attorney-General's International Affairs Department, said a problem emerging from the decision by the United Kingdom to revoke Thak-sin's visa would be tracking his whereabouts from now on. As a first step, police and the Foreign Ministry had to work closely together to locate Thaksin before the government could start the process of applying to his host country to extradite him, Mr Sirisak said. If Thaksin stays in a country which has no extradition agreement with Thailand, the kingdom could possibly make a reciprocal deal with that country, he added. Thaksin had spent most of his time in London with Khunying Potjaman and his family after being ousted in a coup two years ago. He had sought political asylum in the UK. He was sentenced to two years in jail by the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions for conflict of interest when his wife bought government land in 2003. On July 31 the Criminal Court sentenced his wife to three years in prison for tax evasion. The pair have had arrest warrants issued for them. The Office of the Attorney-General has all the evidence it needs to start the extradition process. It had planned to start the process if Thaksin decided not to appeal his case. He has until Nov 20 to make a decision on an appeal. Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongphakdi said the British embassy in Thailand had yesterday confirmed Thaksin and his wife's visas had been cancelled, but refused to give details. "The decision is made under authority of the British government," he said. The Bangkok office of the UK Border Agency at the embassy has alerted airlines about revoking the visas issued to Thaksin and Khunying Potjaman in their diplomatic passports. The information was sent to airlines which were asked not to carry the pair to any destinations in the UK. The couple still have ordinary Thai passports in their possession. Thaksin is in China now, a source in the Thaksin-backed People Power party said yesterday. The government has not decided to cancel Thaksin's diplomatic passport. The issue of his diplomatic passport has been tossed back and forth between the prime minister and the Foreign Ministry. Then foreign minister Tej Bunnag wanted then prime minister Samak Sundaravej to make the decision. But Mr Samak stepped down and now the case has been sent back to the ministry. The ministry was waiting for direction from Foreign Minister Sompong Amornvivat on the case, the deputy spokesman said. Former ambassador Kasit Piromya said the British decision sent a signal to Thaksin that his chances for political asylum were over and showed the British government respected the Thai judicial system.Other countries which are members of the Commonwealth could follow the example of the UK by not allowing him to enter their countries, he noted.One of the reasons Thaksin was seeking asylum was his claim that he was unfairly treated during the trial.Mr Kasit and several senior members of the Democrat party called on the government to invalidate Thaksin's diplomatic passport. The delay damaged the reputation of the ministry, he added.Thaksin's supporters believe the loss of their visas would pose no problems for him and his wife. His former lawyer Noppadon Pattama said Thaksin would consider staying in countries which welcomed him and his wife.Acting PPP spokesman Kudep Saikrachang claimed many countries were ready to give Thaksin and his wife a place to stay.Thaksin and his wife have reportedly been given honorary citizenship by the Bahamas. Source Bangkok Post 9th Nov 2008
source from the People Power Party said Saturday that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has bought a house worth Bt300 million in China. The source said Thaksin was now in China to see the construction of his house near the Pine Valley Golf Course in Beijing. The Nation 9th Nov 2008 SAK WANTS TO SEE THAKSIN PAY FOR KARMIC ACTION MONGKOL BANGPRAPA Sak Korsaengruang, the former spokesman of the now-defunct Assets Scrutiny Committee (ASC), yesterday denounced convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra saying that he should stop criticising the justice system and return to the country to serve his sentence which resulted from his own karmic action. Referring to Thaksin's phone-in to his supporters at the packed Rangmangala stadium on Nov 1, he said the man was paying for his own karma. The stadium gathering was organised by the pro-Thaksin United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). Mr Sak said the court did its job by making him pay for the bad karma he created himself by sentencing Thaksin to a two-year jail term in the Ratchadaphisek land case. He pointed that in the past, no matter how powerful a dictator or a politician, they never dared to take such steps to prove the final court judgement was unfair to them, including Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat. 'Mr Thaksin was the only person of that level who did not accept the court's ruling, and even worse, accused the justice system of being politically-motivated and a system meant to end justice. His speech was rather harsh,'' Mr Sak said.He touched on the issue during a seminar on the Thai judicial system and politics held at the Srinakharinwirot University's Prasarnmit campus yesterday. "'He (Thaksin) has a chance to appoint hundreds of lawyers to defend him in court. Among the 60 million Thais, who else has the luxury of justice as much as him?'' Mr Sak asked. Source bangkok Post 9th Nov 2008
If you have a problem anywhere Mr Chuwit Kamolvisit aka Davis Kamol (Thai: ªÙÇÔ·Âì ¡ÁÅÇÔÈÔÉ®ì, will check & help you Police lieutenant colonel jailed 5 years for demanding tea money A police lieutenant colonel was jailed five years for demanding money from a man claiming it was cost for processing a dud cheque case. The Criminal Court found Pol Lt-Col Sorasak Butsuwan of Lak Song police station guilty of demanding tea money from Chalerm Tanthinthong and sentenced him to five years in jail. Following an investigation by the National Counter Corruption Commission, public prosecutors filed charges against Sorasak on May 22 2007. He was charged with demanding money from Chalerm three times for Bt2,000 each after Chalerm filed a dud cheque complaint against a suspect. Chalerm gave the money to him during March 30 to April 6 2001 and later decided to lodge a complaint against Sorasak with his superiors, leading to an NCCC investigation. The court convicted Sorasak for abusing his authority to demand money from another person, which violated Article 201 of the Criminal Code. Supreme Court of Canada rules to extradite Rakesh SaxenaThe Attorney-General is trying to accelerate the extradition process to bring Rakesh Saxena back to face charges of bank fraud after the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled for Saxena's extradition. But Saxena is appealing the Supreme Court's verdict, by claiming that his safety would be at risk if he were to be sent back to Bangkok during this time, according to Sirisak Tiyaphand, the director-general of the Foreign Division of the Attorney-General, said.Saxena fled for Vancouver, Canada in 1996 after the collapse of the Bangkok Bank of Commerce, which cost the government's bailout of more than Bt100 billion. The Nation 11th Nov 2008 ABOUT TIME THIS CROOK CAME BACK TO THAILAND TO FACE CHARGES
NRI, (non-resident Indian) Rakesh Saxena is accused of helping bring down a Bangkok bank and triggering the fall of the baht and the collapse of the Thai economy. Thai authorities want to extradite him from Canada. Rakesh Saxena was charged in Thailand with looting $73.5 million from the Bangkok Bank of Commerce. He will appear before the British Columbia Court of Appeal on September 26, 2005, according to Department of Justice spokeswoman Lye Canton. Saxena has said that, if freed, he would apply for residency in Canada. Rakesh Saxena was a treasurer adviser for the bank when Thai authorities charged him in May 1996 with setting up phony loans to syphon millions from the bank. Thai police issued an arrest warrant for him in June 1996 Saxena's strategy was sufficiently simple; He would identify stagnant Thai companies that traded publicly, find their buyers, then pump up their balance sheets while slimming assets and staff that were not needed, finally reselling those frims on making profit. In 1993 and 1994, Krirkkiat, Saxena and their bankers launched a takeover bid for targets such as Morakot Industries, a major cooking oil producer, Jalaprathan Cement, Semiconductor Venture International and Phoenix Pulp and Paper. In total, 15 companies were attacked. July 1995, within a three day period, Saxena transferred more than $80 milion around the world ignoring banking regulations. In this affair, he colllaborated with Oleg Boiko, a flamboyant Russian businessman; the two owned a New York brokerage firm. At that time Boiko managed the Moscow National Credit Bank. July 7, the US Dollar account number 001-6-10050 was opened at the BBC under the name National Credit Bank. In days to follow Saxena produced a bill of exchange guaranteed by the National Credit Bank under the name Essex Corporate and Finance, a paper company registered in the British Cayman Islands controlled by Saxena. His BBC colleagues applied the standard discount and received the bill of exchange as collateral. All the BBC internal usage documents interpolated the seal "extremely urgent". In less than a week, $80 million was credited to a National Credit Bank account. June 11 1995, all the money was withdrawn and the National Credit Bank account was closed. The loan was not honoured, according to the bank, the registered bill of exchange was valueless and the National Credit Bank is now collapsed. Vancouver, Aug 20, 2005 Dalbir Sahota NRI press Saxena -- who has been implicated in a series of dubious stock schemes and a counter-coup in Sierra Leone while under house arrest in Vancouver -- says he is confident he will win the appeal. And if he does, he says he will apply for Canadian residency. "I'd like to stay here," he said.But federal prosecutor Roger McMeans has other ideas. "I can tell you that all the matters he is raising will be fully canvassed in argument before the court of appeal," he said Friday.Friday was a Thai national holiday, so Thai consular officials could not be reached for comment. Saxena's troubles began in May 1996, when Thai authorities charged Saxena, who had been working as treasurer adviser for the Bangkok Bank of Commerce, with setting up a series of phoney loans to siphon millions from the bank.Thai police issued a warrant for his arrest on June 5, 1996. The following month, RCMP officers -- acting at the behest of the Thai government -- arrested him in Whistler and hustled him off to jail. Saxena argues that the warrant, because it was issued by Thai police rather than a judge, is not legally valid in Canada. Saxena was released on bail, but that bail was revoked in January 1998 after he allegedly tried to obtain a phoney passport and threatened a witness. Several months later, he persuaded then-B .C. Supreme Court judge Wally Oppal (now B.C.'s attorney general) to allow him to move into a luxury False Creek condo, where he would be guarded by private security guards at his own expense. RCMP officers "visibly bristled" at the decision, according to a Vancouver Sun report. His extradition hearing began in October 1996 before B.C. Supreme Court judge Frank Maczko. Four years later, after what Maczko described as the longest and most difficult extradition case in Canadian history, the judge determined there were grounds to return Saxena to Thailand. Now it was up to the federal justice minister to order his extradition. Meanwhile, the Thai government revised its constitution to invalidate all warrants that were not issued by a judge, effective 2002. While the federal justice minister was pondering his decision, the effective date passed. "So technically, they can't arrest me if I land in Thailand today," Saxena contends. In November 2003 -- more than three years after Maczko's decision -- then-federal justice minister Martin Cauchon ordered Saxena to surrender to Thai authorities. "There is a compelling case against Mr. Saxena," the minister said at the time. Saxena acknowledges that the Canadian public will probably interpret his attempts to defeat the government's extradition efforts as stall tactics. "The general perception is that I have dragged the case out. That's what the MPs will say. But that's like a fairy tale you tell your kids when they go to sleep. I say Canada has held me illegally for 10 years. This whole case is a fraud. "I'm not mincing any words here. Most Canadians are ignorant about how things work in the third world. They turn a blind eye to the corruption. If they don't know the facts, they should shut up." In any event, he said, "I don't understand why the Canadian public is worried. I have not committed a crime in Canada, and I'm not costing them a cent." However, Saxena has became involved in several schemes to promote dubious stocks on the perilous OTC Bulletin Board and the even more risky "pink sheets" in the United States. Most of these ventures have ended badly for investors. In June, the Sun reported that, from 2001 to 2003, Saxena arranged for overseas boiler room operators, some with prior criminal records, to sell shares of essentially worthless companies to investors, most located in the United Kingdom. Investors were told to send their money "in trust" to Martin & Associates, a Vancouver law firm. According to a forensic report filed in B.C. Supreme Court, investors sent $18.4 million to the law firm, most of which was distributed to third parties on Saxena's instructions. In many cases, investors did not get their shares. In other cases, investors got their shares only to discover they were not listed on any exchange or had virtually no value. In October 2003, after receiving complaints from investors, the B.C. Law Society took over the law practice. In July 2004, the two principals, Jack Martin and Craig Iwata, admitted to numerous trust account irregularities and agreed not to reapply to practise law for 10 years. Saxena, while admitting he helped organize the scheme, insists he was strictly an intermediary and not party to any of the contractual arrangements. "It's a thin red line, I grant you, but it's still a red line." But these sorts of activities, including a counter-coup attempt in Sierra Leone which he plotted while under arrest in Vancouver, have generated reams of adverse publicity for Canada. Several days ago, the Botswana Sunday Standard described Saxena as a "financial regulators' worst nightmare" and accused him of orchestrating a stock scheme that "threatens investors' confidence in Botswana" while under house arrest in Canada. Saxena, arrested in 1996 in Whistler is charged in Thailand with embezzling C$88 million from the Bangkok Bank of Commerce, which led to a 1996 run on the bank's deposits, causing its collapse and the Asian financial crisis.He lives in a unique court-approved self-financed home prison while working his way through the Canadian court system In Bangkok, Saxena's former boss Krirkiat Jalichandra was found guilty of embezzling millions of baht from the now defunct bank & is now doing time. Government attorney Trakul Winitnaiphak told Thai media, that he was now working to gain the full ruling on Krirkriat's case to send to attorneys in Canada, in an attempt to win Saxena's extradition.
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