Former Yala governor, Teera Mintrasak, aged 59, has been sentenced to eight years in jail for malfeasance in reference to 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 among 12 defendants concerned in the case, with the opposite eleven, all of whom were former officials within the province, receiving jail sentences ranging from 9 months to 4 years and nine months.
Fortune of the Office of the Attorney General, Kosolwat Intuchanyong, acknowledged that the judgement in the 12 cases was announced on Tuesday. The circumstances have been initially filed with the courtroom in 2021, and the 12 defendants had been charged with malfeasance underneath Section 157 of the Criminal Code concerning the procurement of GT200 bomb detectors by way of two contracts.
The court found them responsible as charged and handed an eight-year sentence to Teera, the primary defendant, and varying sentences to the other 11 defendants, starting from 9 months to 4 years and nine months. Furthermore, the court ordered the cost of compensation for the damages incurred.
However, the case isn’t settled but, as each defendant can nonetheless enchantment the ruling, based on Kosolwat.
Cases involving the procurement of GT200 bomb detectors by state companies from 2007-2009 are numerous, with the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) concluding investigations into sixteen cases and forwarding reports and proposals to prosecutors in September 2018, stories Bangkok Post.
According to the DSI, bomb detector distributors convinced a quantity of authorities companies to buy the devices, and evidence of fraud and deception emerged from the instances.
Affected events 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 a few of these instances.
On 10 March this year, the National Anti-Corruption Commission passed a decision to file a lawsuit in opposition to former prime forensic official Khunying Porntip Rojanasunan and other CFIS officers in connection with the counterfeit bomb detector procurements.
Khunying Porntip served as CIFS director through the procurement of GT200 bomb detectors from 2007-2009..