Talk-show company found guilty
Raisom, the TV production house of talk-show host Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda, has been found guilty of not paying Bt138 million to MCOT as per their contract, the head of a fact-finding panel said yesterday.
Police General Prathin Santipraphob said the panel had probed documents relating to the Raisom-MCOT contract for 2005-2006 concerning advertising revenue, for which an MCOT internal examination had already found evidence that Raisom had neglected to pay Bt138 million.The contract, he said, stated that the 30-minute "Kui Kui Khao" news talk show on Modernine TV was allowed to have commercials for five minutes, divided equally between Sorrayuth's firm and MCOT. However, the firm oversold commercials under its quota, he said. Although Raisom eventually forwarded Bt138 million to MCOT, Prathin insisted it was a fraud as the wrongdoing had been done. Sorrayuth, through his company Raisom, entered into a 50-50 profit-sharing deal with MCOT. However, the company allegedly oversold commercials for Raisom and failed to pay the profit it earned from selling the commercials on top of the time agreed with MCOT. Raisom paid Bt138 million to MCOT on the day after the September 19 military coup.
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