Thai police accused of demanding 500,000 baht from Kazakhstan suspect

A Thai lawyer and a Kazakhstan thief accused Thai Immigration Bureau officers of demanding 500,000 baht in change for the momentary release of the suspect.
According to a Channel 7 report, a Kazakhstan man was arrested by Thai law enforcement officials from Mueang Pattaya Police Station, and Koh Samui Police Station, after he and his friends stole from a victim on Koh Samui, an island within the southern province of Surat Thani.
The Thai lawyer, Krit Neatidham, who took care of the case reported to Channel 7 that the Kazakhstan man was later apprehended by Immigration Bureau officers and imprisoned for over two weeks on the immigration office in Bangkok.
Accredited stated that he and the suspect’s Thai spouse attempted to gain temporary launch for him to proceed with additional litigation in court docket. However, the immigration police request a special fee for the bail and contacted the lawyer via telephone call to negotiate the amount of the fee.
During the dialog on the telephone, the police officer made an specific demand, stating…
“You have to pay the courtroom 500,000 baht for the momentary release of the suspect. Are you handy for that? And might I ask you straightly? Could you pay the same amount to my team?”
The record was minimize off, and the lawyer, Krit, had not but responded to the provide. Krit defined that the immigration police said that the international man was imprisoned because he was involved within the tried homicide case in Phuket. However, the officers refused to offer particulars of the case.
While Krit didn’t explicitly state whether his client in the end agreed to pay the bribes or not, he did reveal that the suspect was subsequently launched someday in February of this year..