OAG forms panel to probe decision on Red Bull heir’s hit-and-run case

[webfact]

OAG forms panel to probe decision on Red Bull heir’s hit-and-run case

 

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The Office of the Attorney-General has set up a seven-member fact-finding panel to investigate the decision, by Thailand’s Office of Special Prosecutors for Criminal Litigation, to drop charges against Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya over a fatal hit and run incident in 2012.

 

OAG deputy spokesman Mr. Prayuth Petkhun said in a press release today that the attorney-general learned of the controversial decision while he was attending a seminar in the northeast last week and ordered the probe.

 

He added that the OAG will inform the public as soon as it receives the findings from the panel. Meanwhile, the Immigration Bureau’s spokesman, Pol Maj-Gen Surapong Chaijan, said today that they removed the name of Vorayuth Yoovidhya from its blacklist on July 14th, after it received notification from Thonglor police about the withdrawal of his arrest warrant.

 

Source: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/oag-forms-panel-to-probe-decision-on-red-bull-heirs-hit-and-run-case/

 

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[Laughing Gravy]

Panel, Committee, whatever you want to call it. It is a waste of time as everyone knows that nothing purposeful will materliase. All smoke screens and mirrors.

[colinneil]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The Office of the Attorney-General has set up a seven-member fact-finding panel to investigate.

A panel has been set up with the sole purpose of calming the peasants.

The last thing they want is the peasants revolting.

[RotBenz8888]

The outcome has been clear ever since the very moment he hit the cop who blocked his way on the race track.... he will never be locked up. 

[OneMoreFarang]

I wonder how things like this happen in real life in Thailand.

Are there certain family members or their lawyers actively running around, distributing money, making threads, etc.?

Or are all those officials keen to do something to make the rich and powerful happy?

It must be an interesting game for them.

[anchadian]

 

Jonathan Head

 

@pakhead

 

This is odd. I thought it was the AG office that made the decision to drop charges. Why does it need to investigate its own decision? Doesn’t it know why it made it?

[Curt1591]

"The Court said that it has checked with the judge and was told that the opinion, as reported in the media, was not his, but was taken from an article on the same subject by Professor Dr. Suraphol Nitikraipote."

Already back-peddling! 

[soalbundy]

Follow the money, it should be easy enough. The 'investigation' will get bogged down in the backwater reeds of apathy.

[innosiem]

A panel has been set up
so it can decide it was all just a big misunderstanding

obviously that decision will come after the delivery of a few brown envelopes

[bodga]

Lip service  panel! Thailands  good  at that,  like  most committees.

[worgeordie]

What was the reason they dropped the charges ? I mean apart

from been paid to do so.this is a new low for Thailand,we all 

know there is a dual system of justice ,one for the rich and

influential,and another for the rest of the population,this is

not the first time the elite have gotten away with murder,

and unfortunately it won't be the last.

regards Worgeodie

[PatOngo]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The Office of the Attorney-General has set up a seven-member fact-finding panel to investigate the decision,

And the finding.....The system is bent and totally corrupt to the core in favour of the rich and influential!.................Yeah right! ????

[smutcakes]

7 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

What was the reason they dropped the charges ? I mean apart

from been paid to do so.this is a new low for Thailand,we all 

know there is a dual system of justice ,one for the rich and

influential,and another for the rest of the population,this is

not the first time the elite have gotten away with murder,

and unfortunately it won't be the last.

regards Worgeodie

Apparently 2 new witnesses were located who both said that the policeman swerved infront of the ferrari. Amazing after all this time 2 new witnesses suddenly appear.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

OAG deputy spokesman Mr. Prayuth Petkhun said in a press release today that the attorney-general learned of the controversial decision while he was attending a seminar in the northeast last week and ordered the probe.

So time will tel, if the decision stands or it's reversed.

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, smutcakes said:

Amazing after all this time 2 new witnesses suddenly appear.

Not amazing at all! Would you expect anything different from these dirty bent grubs! 

[Misterwhisper]

So the AG, the very person who according to multiple press reports made the decision to drop the case in the first place, suddenly claims that he knew nothing about it?

 

And he orders to set up a committee - consisting of members of his own office, no less - to investigate his own decision and why it was made?

 

Ridiculous!

 

Also makes you wonder whether it's common practice at the OAG that subordinates can unilaterally drop high-profile cases like the one at hand at their pleasure without having the AG sign off on it -- and regardless whether he's "attending a seminar" at the moment (an excuse even flimsier than "brake failure") or on vacation.

 

There ought to be documents ordering the case to be dropped and bearing the AG's signature, right? And if not... whose signature is on those documents? 

 

[rkidlad]

Absolutely embarrassing. 
 

People need to keep piling the pressure on. At the very least we can watch them squirm like the rats that they are. Maybe next time they’ll think twice about being so brazenly abhorrent and corrupt. 

[Grusa]

If they want to quell the revolting masses, all they have to do is reinstate the charges, warrants, and red notice.

And of course return the bribes. Not to do so would be immoral.

Edited July 27, 2020 by Grusa

[Misterwhisper]

20 minutes ago, Grusa said:

And of course return the bribes. Not to do so would be immoral.

Morality.... not exactly a strong trait in those who accept bribes in the first place, wouldn't you say? LOL

[Misterwhisper]

39 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Maybe next time they’ll think twice about being so brazenly abhorrent and corrupt. 

You know better than that! They never think twice and will do it over and over again without batting an eye lid. We've seen it in the past; and we'll see it again in the future. The "brazenly corrupt" (as you so eloquently put it) are beyond remedying themselves. The only way to "cure" them is by forcing them to undergo "therapy". And who would administer it? They are all the same. The entire system runs on entrenched corruption. Ever seen an alcoholic successfully curing another alcoholic? I haven't. 

[JusticeGB]

The AG was away so that the decision was made by his deputy to deflect the heat. Red Bull can hardly sue for the return of brown envelopes which obviously didn't pass hands anyway. 

 

Assuming such a dastardly deed occurred then will the 7 people in the panel want their share or will extra non existent brown envelopes be passed around. 

[Iron Tongue]

As long as this keeps getting exposure, it will be harder to cover-up.  Hopefully, this case continues to create ill-will between the common folk and the judiciary/elite.  

Sometimes, an unpredicted event is what sets the spark for change, or at least a lot of rioting!

[sammieuk1]

Suspect decision making as no mention of sub panel being formed????

[webfact]

Thai police to examine dropping of hit-and-run charges vs Red Bull heir

 

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's police said on Monday they would look into why criminal charges were dropped against the heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune, who was accused of a 2012 hit-and-run killing of a police officer while driving a sports car.

 

The decision to drop the charges against Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya has stirred public anger about the country's entrenched culture of impunity for the rich and well-connected.

 

The charges had included speeding, hit-and-run and reckless driving causing death.

 

"A committee has been set up to ascertain the facts for transparency and fairness to all parties with regards to actions of the police, ensuring they were acting in accordance with the law and regulations," the national police said in a statement.

 

The committee will report its findings in 15 days.

 

The announcement comes after the Office of the Attorney-General said it would also probe the decision.

 

Red Bull has sought to distance itself from Vorayuth, the grandson of the late Chaleo Yoovidhya, who created the energy drink Krating Daeng, or Red Bull. Calls have been growing to boycott its products amid anger on social media.

 

Vorayuth, who was 27 at the time, was accused of crashing his Ferrari into a policeman and dragging his body under the car for dozens of metres before fleeing the scene.

 

He missed eight court summonses over the case before authorities issued an arrest warrant five years after the incident. He later disappeared, apparently abroad, according to some social media posts.

 

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's office said on Sunday that news of the dropped case made him "uncomfortable" and stressed that he had never granted personal favors.

 

(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng; Editing by Martin Petty)

 

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[Justgrazing]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

a press release today that the attorney-general learned of the controversial decision while he was attending a seminar in the northeast last week and ordered the probe.

Given the controversy around this case you'd think the top bod' would have knowledge of the decision not to pursue him would you not .. 

The bit about only just learning about it paints him as being kept in the dark ,  incompetent or spouting b/s .. I'd put a wager on the last one .. 

We all know how this will play out .. there will be wing flapping and sqauwking for a week or two then it'll be overshadowed by another scandal ..  

Edited July 27, 2020 by Justgrazing
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[colinneil]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

why criminal charges were dropped against the heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune, 

 

Money was the reason, so why bother probing the decision?

[Mavideol]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Meanwhile, the Immigration Bureau’s spokesman, Pol Maj-Gen Surapong Chaijan, said today that they removed the name of Vorayuth Yoovidhya from its blacklist on July 14th,

the charges were publicly dismissed around 22-23 of July how did the IMO knew about it on July 14th.....

[P Funk]

Cops on it... sure to find the truth!

[Happyman567]

The only reason the charges were dropped MONEY

[RichardColeman]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The Office of the Attorney-General has set up a seven-member fact-finding panel to investigate the decision, by Thailand’s Office of Special Prosecutors for Criminal Litigation, to drop charges against Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya over a fatal hit and run incident in 2012.

So, are they all transferred to inactive duties until investigated thoroughly ? No,thought not