Former Yala governor, Teera Mintrasak, aged fifty nine, has been sentenced to eight years in jail for malfeasance in connection with the purchase of fraudulent GT200 bomb detectors from 2007-2009. The sentence was delivered by the Region 9 Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases.
Teera was amongst 12 defendants involved within the case, with the other 11, all of whom were former officers within the province, receiving prison sentences starting from 9 months to 4 years and 9 months.
Deputy spokesman of the Office of the Attorney General, Kosolwat Intuchanyong, stated that the judgement in the 12 instances was introduced on Tuesday. The circumstances have been initially filed with the courtroom in 2021, and the 12 defendants were charged with malfeasance beneath Section 157 of the Criminal Code regarding the procurement of GT200 bomb detectors by way of two contracts.
The court docket found them responsible as charged and handed an eight-year sentence to Teera, the primary defendant, and ranging sentences to the other eleven defendants, ranging from 9 months to 4 years and nine months. Furthermore, Free ordered the payment of compensation for the damages incurred.
However, the case isn’t settled but, as each defendant can nonetheless attraction the ruling, based on Kosolwat.
Cases involving the procurement of GT200 bomb detectors by state companies from 2007-2009 are quite a few, with the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) concluding investigations into sixteen circumstances and forwarding reviews and suggestions to prosecutors in September 2018, reviews Bangkok Post.
According to the DSI, bomb detector distributors satisfied several government companies to buy the gadgets, and proof of fraud and deception emerged from the instances.
Affected parties included the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS), Royal Thai Army Ordnance Department, Customs Department, Provincial Administration Department, Royal Thai Aide-De-Camp Department, Provincial Police of Sing Buri and Chai Nat, Songkhla Provincial Administration, Royal Thai Navy Security Centre, and 5 provincial administrations – Phitsanulok, Phetchaburi, Phuket, Yala, and Sukhothai.
Court rulings have already been made on some of these instances.
On 10 March this 12 months, the National Anti-Corruption Commission passed a decision to file a lawsuit in opposition to former prime forensic official Khunying Porntip Rojanasunan and different CFIS officials in connection with the counterfeit bomb detector procurements.
Khunying Porntip served as CIFS director in the course of the procurement of GT200 bomb detectors from 2007-2009..