Premchai Karnasuta, former boss of Italian–Thai Development, now behind bars for hunting and killing wildlife, is “doing fine” according to officers. The Bangkok Post reports that the Corrections Department have confirmed Premchai is sleeping nicely in prison and has accomplished an initial 21-day keep in a Covid-19 quarantine area.
He will now start a second 21-day quarantine interval inside the prison’s detention zone. Premchai is incarcerated at Thong Pha Phum jail within the western province of Kanchanaburi. Tawatchai Chaiwat head of the Corrections Department, says that after that, he’ll be transferred to his cell, as is the standard process for all new inmates. Tawatchai says Premchai has had a medical examination and is doing properly.
On December 8, the Supreme Court sentenced Premchai to three years and 3 months in jail for looking and killing a rare black leopard within the World Heritage Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi 4 years in the past.
โซล่าเซลล์ jailed tycoon’s wife, Kanita Karnasuta, has submitted a letter to Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin, asking that her husband be transferred to hospital. In the letter, she lists a variety of his illnesses, which embrace hypertension, diabetes, and coronary heart disease. He has also lately had eye surgery. Kanita has voiced concern that her husband may contract Covid-19 in prison, arguing that his chronic sicknesses put him at higher danger from the virus.
The Bangkok Post stories that Tawatchai has responded by saying any decision to switch Premchai to hospital might be left up to the prison physician. He says if the doctor believes the prison’s medical tools and supplies are not enough to deal with Premchai, he might be transferred to hospital.
“All inmates are handled in accordance with human rights rules, which embrace equal entry to well being providers. There are not any privileges for any particular group of people.”