Khattiya, Seripisut sue one another
Army officer Maj General Khattiya Sawasdipol yesterday filed a Bt600 million defamation suit with the Criminal Court against acting national police chief General Seripisut Temiyavej.
Seripisut immediately sent his lawyer to the Civil Court to file a Bt500 million suit against Khattiya and four accomplices. Khattiya said Seripisut defamed him early last year by suggesting he was linked to a large gambling den in Bangkok. Seripisut was a police inspector general at the time. According to Khattiya, a Thai-language newspaper published an interview with Seripisut on February 18 last year. Khattiya accused Seripisut of exploiting his post as the police inspector general. "The post gave him credibility, but what he said was groundless," Khattiya said in his affidavit. The Criminal Court was scheduled to hold a hearing to decide whether Khattiya's suit merits judicial review on April 23. Meanwhile, Seripisut has filed 29 cases against Khattiya with the Criminal Court, which agreed to rule on 20 of them. In addition, Seripisut's lawyer Anantachai Chaiyadej also lodged a complaint with the Civil Court yesterday demanding Bt500 million compensation from Khattiya and four accomplices for defaming Seripisut. According to Anantachai, Khattiya and his accomplices groundlessly accused Seripisut of being involved in gambling dens, horse race gambling, brothels and illicit drugs. The Civil Court was scheduled to rule on whether the complaint merited judicial review on May 21.
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