SURAT THANI – A growing scandal over forged construction permits in Koh Samui has triggered widespread concern, particularly regarding the safety of luxury villas owned by foreign nationals, as authorities scramble to investigate a scheme involving fraudulent documents and alleged bribery. Two luxury villas demolished in Koh Samui Local officials have confirmed that fake documents […]
BANGKOK — A high-profile temple in Pathum Thani is under intense scrutiny after police launched an investigation into alleged financial misconduct involving a 12.2 million baht international money transfer. The case, sparked by a complaint from a Thai woman based in Germany, accuses a senior monk of using her as a conduit to divert temple […]
Police are questioning dozens of patients who live in Lop Buri about their alleged involvement in a drug and medical supply corruption scandal at the Veterans General Hospital (VGH) in Bangkok. Swedish tourist attacked by monkey in Lopburi The abuse of free medication and medical supplies intended for veterans and beneficiaries of their welfare programme […]
Boonsong Teriyapirom, the former commerce minister jailed for 48 years for his role in the fake government-to-government (G2G) agreements in the controversial rice-pledging scheme during the Yingluck Shinawatra administration, will be released on parole today. Yingluck Minister Sentenced to Decades in Prison After his release, Boonsong, 64, will be required to wear an electronic monitoring […]
Surabot Leekpai, the celebrity son of a man dubbed the “Mr Clean” of Thai politics, has been accused of swindling crypto investors out of millions. Kazakhstani man allegedly involved in extorting Russian for cryptocurrency on Samui Island arrested in Chonburi Investors in the Crypto Ronin NFT Project have filed a joint complaint with police against […]
An armed forces fact-finding panel is looking into a soldier’s alleged involvement in the police extortion of millions of baht in exchange for the release of 11 Chinese suspects found hiding in a former consul-general’s house in Bangkok. Lt Gen Teerapong Pattamasing Na Ayutthaya, director general of civil affairs and spokesman for the Royal Thai […]
Pheu Thai MP has demanded that party leader, Chonlanan Srikaew, investigate an allegation by a lawyer that a former deputy prime minister in the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had an extra-marital affair with the wife of another man. Yutthapong Charassathien, deputy leader of the Pheu Thai Party, said today (Sunday) that he had […]
The former director of a kindergarten, in Thailand’s southern province of Surat Thani, has been sentenced to 192 years in prison, without suspension, for cheating children out of their free lunch funding, by providing them with just rice noodles and fish sauce. The court found Somchao Sitthichen, former director of Ban Tha Mai School in […]
