4 replies to this topic

[Sexpat]

"Pichit Chuenban, personal lawyer of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, denied Thursday that he tried to bribe court officials by giving a box of pastry filled with Bt2 million in cash.

"Our lawyer team is not involved in the attempt to change a panel of judges. We feel that the Supreme Court has been given us justice,'' Pichit said. The Supreme Court on Wednesday set up a committee to investigate an alleged attempt to bribe judges by a politician's lawyer."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingne...newsid=30075365

"The Supreme Court president has orders court officials and judges to stop speaking about the attempt to bribe court officials with Bt2 million. A source from the court said the Supreme Court president ordered all officials to stop speaking about the bribery attempt until the investigation into it has been done."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingne...newsid=30075534

[UncleSam]

At the risk of sounding too cynical, I wonder where all that cash is now ?

Hehehe.....

[Sexpat]

"The Supreme Court fact-finding committee on the Bt2-million bribery scandal will later this week summon the lawyer's clerk who allegedly handed a bag containing the money to a senior court official, a source said yesterday.

The probe team, which consists of three Supreme Court judges, has spoken to the C-7 official in question, who said the clerk gave her a green paper bag while they were alone in the recreation room for lawyers at the Supreme Court.

"I have just returned from abroad. I see that you and your colleagues are tired from work. This is for you guys to share," the clerk was quoted as saying.

The court official told the probe panel that she was startled to discover Bt2 million inside the bag. She later reported the incident to her supervisor. The room is not fitted with any closed-circuit cameras, but the banknotes inside the bag were photographed.

The panel will summon the clerk, whose boss works for a politician who has a case lodged with the court, for questioning this week, the source said. Findings from the investigation could lead to charges of infringement on the court's authority and bribing a court official, according to the source.

Meanwhile, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is one of the three politicians facing cases in the Supreme Court, yesterday refused to answer reporters' questions about the bribery scandal."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/06/17...cs_30075733.php

[Hedda]

At the risk of sounding too cynical, I wonder where all that cash is now ?

From what I read in the papers, the court officials who saw the money in the bag actually ordered it to be returned to the alleged bribers, along with the package of pastries, rather than impounding all of it as evidence of a crime. They apparently did take some photos of the money, details of which remain sketchy, which sounds like a very feeble and totally inadequate alternative to having kept the actual proof of the crime. A cynic might suggest ther whole thing was staged. Fancy that. TIT.

[Garcia]

"The court inquiry into the Bt2 million attempted bribery, known as the pastrygate scancal, is almost complete and will likely be wrapped up in a week, Supreme Court vice president Mongkol Tabthiang said on Thursday. Mongkol is the chairman of the three-member inquiry panel.

The panel has finished hearing the testimonies of court officials who witnessed the attempted payment on June 10. And it is in the process of taking statements from witnesses who are not court officials."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingne...newsid=30075942